BACKGROUND There has been little research into poetry-based medical education. Few studies consider learners' perceptions in depth. OBJECTIVE To explore general practice registrars' (GPRs) perceptions of two poetry-based sessions. METHODS GPRs in one general practice vocational training scheme experienced two poetry sessions. In one, the facilitator selected poems; in the other, poems were ...

We test the Consensual Assessment Technique on recent digital poetry, using graduate students in Experimental Digital Media as judges. Our judges display good interrater agreement for the best and worst poems, but disagree on others. The CAT by itself may not be suitable for use on digital poetry; however, the behavior of quasi-expert judges when attempting this task gives us clues towards evid...

It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...

This paper develops a theory of the interaction between appropriative conflict and economic growth. Appropriative conflict, as measured by the diversion of resources, is viewed as the cost of securing effective property rights. We identify conditions under which conflict rises or falls as the rate of economic growth improves. The main implication of the analysis is that if the quality of proper...

Rhythm is expressed by recurring, hence predictable beat patterns. Poetry in many languages is composed with attention to poetic meters while prose is not. Therefore, one way to investigate speech rhythm is to evaluate how prose reading differs from poetry reading via a quantitative method that measures predictability. We use linear regression to predict the acoustic properties of segments from...

Against the apparent casting away of poetry from contemporary philosophy language and aesthetics which has left forceless, I argue that a linguistic, philosophical, even political force. idea literature (as novel) can teach us facts about world, force poetry) resides in its capacity to change our ways seeing. First, contest views consider forceless by discussing Austin’s Sartre’s views. Second,...

With the rise of ecological branch of literary criticism many critics have attempted to explore the relationship of literature and environment. Consequently the role of literature, and especially poetry is re-examined from ecocentric perspective, that is, poetry is considered as promoting ecological consciousness. Some of the critics eve argue that this consciousness can be converted into activ...

location, is an effective element on human life and is also a motivating element on his feelings in relation to his past and present. location is not an end in poetry; otherwise, it would become political geography. therefore, location is an instrument and its realization in poetry rather than being objective is often psychological and artistic and full of various meaningful contents. different...

critical analysis of power discourse in zeinab habash’s poems discourse analysis is a modern approach which flourishing and growing in the context of postmodernism. norman fairclough’s three-dimensional framework in critical discourse analysis is one of the most practical aspects of this theory that includes analysis of (spoken or written) language texts, analysis of discourse practice (process...