The exportation of modern novel from European languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of World Literature. The introduction of modern novel into the Persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. The genre was unprecedented in Persian and the concept of adabiyat wa...

The majority of approaches to author profiling and author identification focus mainly on lexical features, i.e., on the content of a text. We argue that syntactic dependency and discourse features play a significantly more prominent role than they were given in the past. We show that they achieve state-of-the-art performance in author and gender identification on a literary corpus while keeping...

The paradigm of Aristotelian science continues to cause tension between scientific and literary language. Aristotle’s scientific legacy, the dominance of a strictly logical method, disbars and degrades any methodology which it deems not as rigorous. Accordingly, the scientific tradition enthrones the use of unambiguous language because it assumes that Aristotle’s systematic methodology rejects ...

construction of the universal subject imagined by the Enlightenment; comparative literature and world literature as the critical discourse that would render visible the cosmopolitan ethical and cultural world to come: Once we grasp the nature of art and poetry, its victory over human mortality and destiny, its creation of a new world order of the imagination, national vanities will disappear. M...

It was once believed that the ancients invented and perfected certain genres and that the works they left might serve as models for later writers. Today belief in ideal patterns is a distant memory, and our interest in genre takes other forms. Classicists, by engaging with the specific problems presented by Greek and Roman literature and with the speculative discourse taking place throughout li...

This article seeks to contribute to contemporary discussions on the workings of culturalmemory and examines in particular theway inwhich literary texts can function as a social framework for memory.Through a detailed study of the genesis, composition, and long-term reception of Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian (1982 [1818]), I argue that literary texts play a variety of roles in the forma...

Most of the literary theorists and critics of classical antiquity who are still studied today – Plato, Aristotle, ‘Longinus’, and a few others – are Greeks. The Romans, who by reputation came late to literature and lacked a theoretical cast of mind, are not generally accorded a prominent place in the development of this discourse. Indeed, few surviving Roman texts address as their main topic th...

Many existing approaches for measuring text complexity tend to overestimate the complexity levels of informational texts while simultaneously underestimating the complexity levels of literary texts. We present a two-stage estimation technique that successfully addresses this problem. At Stage 1, each text is classified into one or another of three possible genres: informational, literary or mix...