CONCEPTIONS OF THE POETIC IN CLASSICAL GREEK PROSE Alison C. Traweek Dr. Sheila Murnaghan This dissertation explores how prose authors of the Classical period envisioned literary distinctions, particularly how and when they labeled a particular utterance ‘poetic’. The first chapter addresses fifth-century prose authors whose work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose ...

This article reviews the development of computational models of creativity where social interactions are central. We refer to this area as computational social creativity. Its context is described, including the broader study of creativity, the computational modeling of other social phenomena, and computational models of individual creativity. Computational modeling has been applied to a number...

Devoting time to serious bibliographical matters as a tribute to Ted Nelson may seem like a quaintly out-of-tune and bookish, if not totally misguided project. It is easy to pigeon-hole Ted’s work as belonging to a generation of adventurous and creative writers and editors active during the 1960s who began to fi nd that traditional print media constrained the expression of their ideas. Marshall...

When processing literary narratives, standard temporal annotation specifications – typically developed for processing newsstyle documents – do not match the expectations of literary scholars. Thus, a different definition of temporal signals is required. In this paper, we define this concept from the narratological perspective and present our hybrid approach developed in the context of the heure...

Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate meaning. In order to cope with the great variety of creative uses of language in literature, linguistics must acknowledge that some texts are ass...

As a well-recognized and widely adopted emotional regulation strategy, cognitive reappraisal has generally been proven to be efficient. However, the cognitive mechanism underlying regulatory efficiency, particularly the role of creativity, in cognitive reappraisal is unclear. Although previous studies have evaluated the relationship between creativity and reappraisal from the perspectives of ge...

We consider several types of literary-theoretic approaches to literary text analysis; we describe several concepts from Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence that could be used to model

1 . The present paper presents an original interdisciplinary study of style-shifting in literary translation, which draws upon methodologies and techniques from corpus stylistics and computational stylometry, and relevant sociolinguistic theories of style variation. Such an innovative approach to the literary translator’s idiosyncratic use of language sets out to address one of the most difficu...

Combinatorial creativity involves the creation of new ideas (and, if realized, artefacts) by exploring atypical combinations of familiar ideas. In this paper we explore the relationship between word-level creativity and artefact-level creativity in a computational system dubbed “Gastronaut” that explores the food domain. Cookery is both a paradigm example, and a metaphor, for combinatorial crea...

From what perspective should creativity of a system be considered? Are we interested in the creativity of the system’s output? The creativity of the system itself? Or of its creative processes? Creativity as measured by internal features or by external feedback? Traditionally within computational creativity the focus had been on the creativity of the system’s Products or of its Processes, thoug...