A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory, formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro)cognitive poetics has investigated structural and functional aspects of literature reception. Despite a wealth of literature published in specialized journals like Poetics, however, still little is known about how the brain processes and...

The stages of development the main traditional Swahili poetic genres tendi and mashairi, starting from period their formation ending with current state are discussed in article. On example most significant works classics modernity, formal stylistic features studied analyzed, question is raised about continuity innovative techniques context non-literary factors. conclusion made within framework ...

In this study sought to present a theoretical literary analysis based on the epistemological reflections of Aristotle (1992), Rosenfeld (1994) and Staiger (1977), intertwining dialogue between epic/narrative, lyrical dramatic genres - poetic intergenericity, in tales oral tradition, from collection traditional storytellers city Tapiramutá, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia. analyzes carried out, presen...

This paper describes a corpus of about 3000 English literary texts with about 250 million words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and non-fiction written by more than 130 authors (e.g., Darwin, Dickens, Shakespeare). Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) is used to explore a cleaned subcorpus, the Gutenberg English Poetry Corpus (GEPC) which comp...

The Sultanate of Oman is characterized by a huge and creative musical heritage that remains mostly preserved. One hundred forty-two different traditional genres styles (funun) have been registered in the Sultanate. This study aimed to investigate Omanis’ achievements psychological motives behind Omani achievements. present qualitative adopted ethnographic research. two study’s questions were an...

Abstract: Ausonius was interested in exploring the theme of travel. The Mosella, that he wrote about his journey towards Trier, is a reconstruction reality. In Ordo Vrbium Nobilium, writes collection exists more as virtual travel than praise cities. But under caracteristics city, we can see an exploration different genres and styles used by Ausonius. poet brings lector encrypted itinerary works...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...

Why do we like the music we do? Research has shown that musical preferences and personality are linked, yet little is known about other influences on preferences such as cognitive styles. To address this gap, we investigated how individual differences in musical preferences are explained by the empathizing-systemizing (E-S) theory. Study 1 examined the links between empathy and musical preferen...

For many years, language documentation has merely been regarded as a primary ‘invisible’ stage of grammar writing; the results of language documentation itself, i.e. transcribed and annotated texts, often remained unpublished. In the last decade, the importance of language documentation as such has been finally recognized by the international community of linguists. As a result, not only the qu...