A large number of novels are being uploaded as online novels. The present paper proposes a ranking algorithm based on the users’ favorite lists (bookmarks). Empirical evaluation has been conducted with respect to each genre of novels. In several genres, it is confirmed that the top ranked novels in July are predicted from the bookmarks of May.

Tests are described comparing the sensitivity of the Erickson dipole feeds with the new strut-straddling Modified J-Pole (MJP) feeds using the new VLA Lowband receivers in the 54-86 MHz window. These tests show that the sensitivity of the MJP feeds for the “B” mounting position is comparable to the Erickson dipoles. For the “C” mounting position the MJP sensitivity is a factor of two worse than...

This paper analyzed three middle grade novels and a short story from two cultures using the journey motif as the vehicle for the analysis. The three novels are Bud Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham both by Paul Curtis   and Journey to Jo’burg by Naidoo (1986). The short story is My Two Dads by M. Lee.  The three novels and a short story were chosen because these no...

In its depiction of marginalized characters trapped within inner-city slums, David Goodis’s postwar fiction the late 1940s through 1950s constitutes a noir critique American Dream’s paralysis. The defining elements that paradigm—romantic fulfillment, family cohesion, upward mobility, suburban escape, egalitarian success, material prosperity—are systematically shown to be beyond attainment by un...

Modernism’s seminal “Make it New” has long acclaimed exceptionalism as part of the artistic movement’s reaction(s) to previous modes thinking, writing and producing art. Indeed, modernism’s wish renew literature, experiment with language construct itself against thinking enabled writers artists rethink artistic, social cultural codes or rules beginning 20th century, either openly, in a more cov...

In his monumental autobiographical series of novels My Struggle, acclaimed Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard devotes a considerable number pages to discuss James Joyce’s fictional works. the last volume – The End –, practically entire body fiction from early works such as Stephen Hero and Dubliners modernist masterpieces Ulysses Finnegans Wake is included in discussion on Irish novelist’s ...

In an undated letter, likely composed in late 1914, Mina Loy reflected on the recent aesthetic experiences that had greatly affected her, writing ‘things have made [her] gasp were a few Picassos, Windham [ sic] Lewis, Nijinski dancing – perfection is infrequent’. The letter was addressed to her American agent Carl Van Vechten, dance and music critic at New York Times, who played highly influent...

Abstract Reading literature is often contrasted to the use of digital media in terms speed. While readers engage slowly with a book, they rush through environments at an ever faster pace. This article argues against simple binary between slow/literary and fast/digital. fact not native public debate about age but can be traced back from revolution modernist attitudes on literature, as emerge Vik...