in the books written on rhetorics, figures of speech, and literary terms one may find different non-systematic classifications of puns. some of these methods have been translated from the arabic literary texts. some other classifications are based on phonetics and phonology. in this research after surveying the common methods of classification, it has been tried to put forward certain new scien...

This paper discusses the main issues encountered in the design of a domain ontology to represent ancient literary texts that survive only in fragments, i.e. through quotations embedded in other texts. The design approach presented in the paper combines a knowledge domain analysis conducted through semantic spaces with the integration of well established ontologies and the application of ontolog...

This research paper investigates two literary texts, one is an ancient Indian epic Bhagavad Gita (The Song of the Lord) anonymously written between (500 -200 BC) while second a historical novel Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho. Though texts may vary their genre and religious tradition, they still share significant features. The first related to setting. shared feature army preparation ...

Godly sorrow and despair were spiritual rather than corporeal and could only be overcome through God’s grace. Here the author looks to devotional literature and spiritual autobiographies, including much welcomed writing by women. Protestant theologians characterised godly sorrow as a positive, even joyous, experience. The physical body, particularly the broken, softened heart, provided a langua...

The main theme of the thesis is to interpret Naxi (Na-khi) religious texts from a historical and a comparative perspective in the social and cultural context in the region of south-west China. There are two parts: Part I. Social Anthropology and the study of the Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples; Part II. Naxi writing and the interpretation of Naxi religious texts. Part I (Chapters 1 to 5) focuses...

doing researches on the arts of rhetoric and oratory which relates to meaning hunting and using it through speech structure has earned, from the ancient periods, the attention of critics and scholars in all over the world, and paying attention to coherent speeches is what can be traced in ancient iran before the arrival of islam. instructive brevities, phrases full of similes and metaphors, elo...

We present in this paper a numerical investigation of literary texts by various well-known English writers, covering the first half of the twentieth century, based upon the results obtained through corpus analysis of the texts. A fractal power law is obtained for the lexical wealth defined as the ratio between the number of different words and the total number of words of a given text. By consi...

While our knowledge about ancient civilizations comes mostly from studies in archaeology and history books, much can also be learned or confirmed from literary texts. Using natural language processing techniques, we present aspects of ancient China as revealed by statistical textual analysis on the Complete Tang Poems, a 2.6-million-character corpus of all surviving poems from the Tang Dynasty ...

National Endowment for the Humanities and other donors. According to CSC director Werner Kelber, “Professor Handelman was selected as the fourth NEH Distinguished Visiting Scholar in recognition of her notable contribution to integrating Jewish religious thought into the modern humanities and to tracing plausible links between the Rabbinic interpretive tradition and several influential schools ...