Abstract In this article we compare Dutch penny prints with Spanish Aleluyas, focusing on three specific functions of premodern mass medium: popularising and adapting theatre plays; standardising (folk/fairy) tales; literary classics. Via these address the discrepancies between two countries considering materiality prints, growth production, but also transition from a predominantly religious, t...

The article is devoted to the study of short story genre in context second half twentieth century American literature, an attempt made show way from form standard so called “psychological sketch”. manifested national originality prose, peculiarities character and local color earlier more fully than other forms. It developed traditions folk stories, humor, satire. object analysis J. Updike’s "Pi...

We introduce the novel task of determining whether a newswire article is “true” or satirical. We experiment with SVMs, feature scaling, and a number of lexical and semantic feature types, and achieve promising results over the task.

GEORGE ELIOT wrote that "about the year 1829 the dark territories of pathology were a fine America for a spirited young adventurer." The adventurer was Lydgate, who had preferred Rasselas or Gulliver to the Bible or Bayle's dictionary until he discovered the medical profession, "the finest in the world, presenting the most perfect interchange between science and art, offering the most direct al...