Outlining an educational initiative for those who work in the National Health Service (NHS), this article argues that literary reflection has been too easily seen as a simple tool which may improve the practitioner's empathic skills and benefit patient-centred care. Using anecdotal feedback, the author reports ways in which a series of literary workshops held for professionals in the NHS have a...

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...

Bruce Thacker never took an art class. He never even took a computer class. His degree is in geology, and he fi rst bought a computer in 1990 to track stock investments. Somewhere in the convoluted melange of his linear history, he owned a contemporary art gallery, invested in stocks and real estate, owned a custom photo lab, and was a professional photographer. “Other things that I’ve never ha...

Abstract Fundamentally, meaning is organized along two dimensions, similarity and contiguity, corresponding to areas of the brain primarily responsible for language processing, Wernicke’s area Broca’s area, respectively. Modern culture has tended overemphasize dimension through money/commodification in capitalism, mathematics science, with disastrous ecological consequences. Ecostylistics can c...

plicitly, by an equally nebulous third term: sense. The relation is ambiguous, and shift-­ ing, because sound—especially in the context of poetry—is of that species of homographs which produce their own antonyms.4 On the one hand, sound—defined as “the au-­ dible articulation(s) corresponding to a let-­ ter or word” (def. 4b)—has been understood as distinct from linguistic meaning: “the sound m...

In this article, we focused on the presence of verbs and nouns in Su‘ād al-Ṣabāḥ Fatāfīt Imraʼa (Fragments a Woman), significance tense as section grammatical structures, which turn are considered part structural methods. Imraʼa, with most its poems, is revolutionary work for rejection humiliating reality, social postulates that made man dominant his relationship women. Since revolution based c...

This paper is about the automatic generation of creative text, more precisely the automatic generation of poetry. It starts by presenting two possible categorisations for systems that aim generating poetry and then makes a brief overview on the existing attempts to this subject based on what can be found in the literature.