The present paper suggests an application of ontologies in the analysis of a literary phenomenon. Starting from the needs of humanistic research and from the availibility on the Web of Language Resources, the adoption of such methodology, whose reference tool is an ontology, has led to a deeper analysis of the “Dualism Truth vs. Propaganda” in Karl Kraus’s writings and of the novel “Cloud, cast...

Our paper is concerned with investigating the impact of translationese on the novels of a bilingual writer and asking whether one could determine the authorship of a translated document. The main part of our paper will be centered on selecting a good set of lexical features that can be considered characteristic for an author. We used in our research the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, a bilingual a...

Let M = { ∀a, t.(AuthorOf(a, t)→ ∃g.BookInfo(t, a, g)) }, I1 = { AuthorOf(nabokov, lolita), AuthorOf(tolkien, lotr) }. Then I2 = { BookInfo(lolita, nabokov, n1), BookInfo(lotr, tolkien, n2) } is a universal solution. Data Exchange Example Let M = { ∃AuthorOf− v ∃BookGenre, AuthorOf− v WrittenBy, TaxNumber v SSN }, T1 = { ∃AuthorOf v Author, Author v ∃TaxNumber }, A1 = { AuthorOf(nabokov, lolita...

The article considers the manifestation of cinematography in V. Nabokov's fiction discourse. analysis peculiarities origin and functioning discourse Nabokov is important for understanding place role cinema author's novel work and, particular, some semantic, ideological plot aspects. based on English-language novels: «Laughter Dark», «Lolita», «Pale Fire» «The Original Laura». also aims to conti...

In his most famous novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov created one of the intricate, memorable, and maddening narrators in literature. By firmly positioning Humbert as a mis-handler fact purveyor own skewed perspective, encourages perceptive reader to reject narrator actively seek out truth story for themselves. Subtle yet undeniable clues (such holes narrative arguments, clear exaggeratio...