1. introduction tazkeres are a kind of considerable sources of investigation in persian literature. in addition to their applications in well-known poet’s biographies, they can also be a resource for studying and representing the literary knowledge. sirajuddin ali khan is one of the indian outstanding scholars and poets of the in twelfth century whose work majma al-nafayesis a significant criti...

Apes in the Plan is a typescript by US novelist Jonathan Lethem, stored at Beinecke Library Yale University. This comprises complete unpublished novel, written c.1983-1986. Part I of present article describes this text, identifies key precursors, explains its likely aesthetic sources and clarifies place literary cultural history. II then integrates text into longer narrative Lethem’s oeuvre hig...

We present a dataset of manually annotated relationships between characters in literary texts, in order to support the training and evaluation of automatic methods for relation type prediction in this domain (Makazhanov et al., 2014; Kokkinakis, 2013) and the broader computational analysis of literary character (Elson et al., 2010; Bamman et al., 2014; Vala et al., 2015; Flekova and Gurevych, 2...

We present a deterministic sieve-based system for attributing quotations in literary text and a new dataset: QuoteLi31. Quote attribution, determining who said what in a given text, is important for tasks like creating dialogue systems, and in newer areas like computational literary studies, where it creates opportunities to analyze novels at scale rather than only a few at a time. We release Q...

due to the existence of different criticism criteria in different eras, the critics have applied different and sometimes opposing methods in literary criticism. the present article studies the popular methods of literary criticism and the evolution of one special method which has been called preference in some era and comparison in some other era.

Katherine Mansfield, remembered as one of the finest writers of English short stories, enjoys enduring fame and a somewhat awesome literary status with her short stories, Miss Brill as one of her representative pieces. The interest of our Chinese critics, in general, locates more in the modernist techniques and devices she employs to present the inner world of the characters in her stories, tha...