National Endowment for the Humanities and other donors. According to CSC director Werner Kelber, “Professor Handelman was selected as the fourth NEH Distinguished Visiting Scholar in recognition of her notable contribution to integrating Jewish religious thought into the modern humanities and to tracing plausible links between the Rabbinic interpretive tradition and several influential schools ...

postmodernism is of the third period of human’s thought eras. during this era which spans the end of the nineteenth century to the present time , “creation “of the real replaces its “ discovery”. this stream is the extremist form of modernism. it has some specific qualities such as irony and mixture of popular art and formal art. this essay aims to analyze one of arabic modern texts named “coll...

Users need more sophisticated tools to handle the growing number of image-based documents available in databases. In this paper, we present a system devoted to the editing and browsing of complex literary hypermedia including original manuscript documents and other handwritten sources. Editing capabilities allow the user to transcribe manuscript images in an interactive way and to encode the re...

We present here a method for automatically discovering several classes of text reuse across different languages, from the most similar (translations) to the most oblique (literary allusions). Allusions are an important subclass of reuse because they involve the appropriation of isolated words and phrases within otherwise unrelated sentences, so that traditional methods of identifying reuse incl...

For various reasons such as ideology of patronage, fear of censorial measures and specific cultural and literary plans, authors may present their original texts as translation, and sometimes translators manipulate the original text to the extent that it can not be considered as translation anymore. This research was aimed at investigating Bastin's adaptation as a kind of pseudo-translation. He ...

undoubtedly, maqameh (maqamat pl.) or rhythmic composition is one of techniques that have been stemmed in ancient history of arabic literature and since the beginning of it emergence, several salient and well- known writers and authors appeared in the field of this technique and represented their power and skill in this regard. of these writers, one may refer to hariri (446-516h.) and soyouti (...

This paper is inspired by the manuscript of Philip Kitcher’s forthcoming book Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach, in which he offers a brilliant, philosophically inspired reading of Thomas Mann’s novel, as well as his views on the relationship between literature and philosophy. One of Kitcher’s claims, which is my starting point, is that philosophy can be done not only by phil...