Scientific material can be difficult to relate to everyday knowledge. Textbook facts can be abstract. This Study of Teaching and Learning project examined the use of "non-fiction novels" (biographies and other books that read like novels but are true) in an undergraduate Sensation and Perception course in order to increase the concreteness of the reading material and to give the students a stor...

Many languages like Hindi, especially those which have been used as (spoken) link languages and don’t have a long history of standardization, allow variant spellings of the same words. One of the reasons for this is the influence of the writer’s first language or dialect. In this paper we present a computational framework for predicting spelling variations based on the speaker’s dialect. This m...

This article analyzes the reemergence of the eighteenth century gothic tradition in the graphic novels of the twentieth century and asserts that the Gothic appears at times of great social changes. Hence, early or later examples of this fiction can be seen as metaphors reflecting the emergence of capitalism and the paradigmatic evolution in man’s epistemological consciousness. The target of cri...

Several novels have appeared after the September 11 attacks whichdeal directly or indirectly with the effect of the event on individuals, both insideand outside of the United States. Though, the novels often claim to deal withthe post- traumatic aftermath of the incident, the writers regularly use Orientaliststereotyping and it seems that after 9/11 this attitude toward Muslims has hardenedand ...

A new SISSA study explores the areas of the brain involved in the processes that lead us to help others even at the cost of our own lives, A computer-based environment developed with the aim to shed light on the origins of altruism: this is the innovative approach used by a research group at SISSA in Trieste, in collaboration with the University of Udine. This new study-recently published in th...

the feminist literary criticism is a kind of criticism which deals with the masculine works and unveils the gynophobia of literary system. this school of thought believes that the masculine norms rule over literature and feminine experiences, desires, interests and emotions have turned pale and have been shown unimportant under these norms. so, the feminist literary criticism intends to reveal ...

despite the diversity among iranian women writers of literary texts in the years after the islamic revolution, especially since the 1990s on, a clear sensitivity to the issues of women and sexual relations is obviously traceable. most of these authors have propounded their similar thoughts about iranian woman using the same techniques and formalistic components. parande-ye-man (my bird by farib...

We establish concrete mathematical criteria to distinguish between different kinds of written storytelling, fictional and non-fictional. Specifically, we constructed a semantic network from both novels and news stories, with N independent words as vertices or nodes, and edges or links allotted to words occurring within m places of a given vertex; we call m the word distance. We then used measur...

This analysis of the introduction of racial theories to Brazil and their reception by Brazilian intellectuals in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries looks at miscegenation, racism, and whitening policies through the lenses of two novels that bear witness to the era's mentality: O cortiço (1890; A Brazilian tenement, 1976), by Aluísio Azevedo, and Canaã (1902; Canaan, 1920), by Graça A...

Conrad’s acclaimed works from his middle period have been thoroughly studied from several perspectives including postcolonialism whereas the novels from his early period were overlooked due to their so-called“uneven” quality. The most notable works among Conrad’s early novels are hisLingard Trilogy- three of his early novels which are based on the recurring presence of the Captain Tom Lingard, ...