Everyone agrees that the purpose of the copyright system is to promote progress.1 At the same time, though, skepticism about the law’s ability to define the substance of progress runs deep within copyright case law and theory. Legal decisionmakers and scholars have quite properly doubted their own ability to evaluate artistic or literary merit, and have worried that efforts to do so would resul...

Generally speaking, in the postcolonial literary theory the other is represented as the object of colonization. The O/other is inev itable, essential and important to the defining of the subject identity in both cases if we deal with the subordinate, marginalized and exploited other, or on the other hand with the Other who is itself the representation of the imperial discourse of power and in w...

This paper proposes a computational system of narrative discourse generation and its implementation. In the system, Genette’s discourse theory is reconstructed as discourse techniques which transform the tree structure for a story into discourse structures. Also, we introduce Jauss’s reception theory to construct the control mechanism, which continues discourse generation through generation cyc...

Stylistics is the proper study of literature. We mean this in several senses. Firstly, it is fit and apt. It is special and specialised. It is delineated by rules and principles, and by reasonable, open and honest argument. And for the evaluative sense of ‘proper’, we also do mean to suggest that it is ethically superior to other, non-stylistic forms of literary study. We insist that any approa...