This chapter aims to explore the role of the hybrid reader-viewer-listener as the user of electronic literary projects that demand more complex interactions, including sophisticated ways to navigate. Rather than taking into account just the reader’s role in decoding meaning and linguistic comprehension, the new-media-shaped literary text stimulates even more sophisticated reader response, addre...

As a result of new technologies like WAP and Java enabled (smart)phones and fast mobile internet connections, many new mobile services are available. One of these new services is mobile banking. Mobile devices differ from normal personal computers in screen size and method of input. But what is the influence of the design and usability in online and mobile banking interfaces on user trust? To a...

A political literary discourse is important at this moment, given the political upheavals that have engulfed African countries. The writer is often seen as an emancipator of the masses therefore, the imaginative writer can, through his work, offer critical appraisal of existing political situations in order to mould and redirect the actions of society, its belief and values. Literature can ther...

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...

cosmopolitanism, romantic movement, the development and extension of literature through communication devices and advancement of publishing technology were the sources of emergence of comparative literature.the present article studies the attempts of arab literary men in this field after it was introduced into arabic literature.

This study examines how reading habits affect people’s sensitivity to word distributions in literary and non-literary writing. We manipulated eight literary and non-literary passages, creating modified versions that had lower word chunk frequencies but higher individual word frequencies than the originals. Subjects were then asked to rate the passages’ quality of writing. Results showed that su...