This article examines the apropos of Dan Brown’s novel - adaptation, The Da Vinci Code, to director’s discourses around film adaptation a literary work. Ron Howard’s stance as an auteur is assessed gauge him illustrator American filmmaking in terms and formulate that his work disavows significant portions Catholic conspiracies, sidestepping subject authenticity, which at forefront contemporary ...

The paper discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s contribution as a writer born and bred in the Four-Corner Area of United States (where states Utah, Colorado, Texas New Mexico come together), contact zone characterized by meeting three cultures: Pueblo, Chicano Anglo-American. A mixed-race woman, Silko was perhaps most suitable person, because her family heritage life at limits Laguna to explore multi...

The essay is an attempt to read Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer in linear and nonlinear modes. author analyzes Foer’s text made „The Street Crocodiles” Bruno Schulz compares the literary experiment American writer with selected phenomena contemporary culture, repeating question about status book’s, both a ruin monument.

Characters form the focus of various studies of literary works, including social network analysis, archetype induction, and plot comparison. The recent rise in the computational modelling of literary works has produced a proportional rise in the demand for character-annotated literary corpora. However, automatically identifying characters is an open problem and there is low availability of lite...

Although the stool of proper biblical exegesis must rest evenly upon the four legs of grammar, history, theology, and literary analysis, too often the literary leg receives such short fashioning that the resulting hermeneutical product is left unbalanced. While in no way minimizing the crucial importance of all four areas of exegesis, this paper concentrates on the benefits of applying sound li...

In the digital age, literary practice proliferates across different media platforms. Contemporary literary texts are written, circulated and read in a variety of media, ranging from traditional print formats to online environments. This essay explores the implications that the transmedial dispersal of literary culture has for intermedial literary studies. If literature in a multiplicity of medi...

This article examines some of the ideas that Theodor Adorno elucidated around the term “cultural industry”, compiling mainly the ideas published in the text “Aesthetic Theory” of 1970. The term “cultural industry” is also contextualized in the article with the reflections that Adorno previously exposed since 1947. Concerning the relation between art and autonomy the ideas of Adorno offer elemen...

Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. In this case, we could conceptualize literary fiction as non-formal knowledge transfer. We model knowledge transfer via literary fiction as a function of the type of scientist (academic or non-academic) and his/her scientific ...

Mapping spaces in fiction seems like a simple idea. But in fact, it turns out to be a major interdisciplinary challenge at the crossroads of literary theory and cartographic concepts for more than one hundred years. Introduced and contextualised is the emerging field of a literary geography along with one of its core methods: literary cartography. After facing a certain period of stagnation, wh...

Writers are often viewed as having an inherent style which can serve as a literary fingerprint. By quantifying relevant features related to literary style, one may hope to classify written works and even attribute authorship to newly discovered texts. Beyond its intrinsic interest, the study of literary styles presents the opportunity to introduce and motivate many standard multivariate statist...