Title of Document: HACKING LITERATURE: READING ANALOG TEXTS IN A DIGITAL AGE Aaron Dinin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Martha Nell Smith, Department of English Evangelists of the digital age, in the immediacy of its adolescence, often describe digital technologies as “revolutionary” (e.g. “the digital revolution”) and as having a world-changing impact on human cultural inte...

The statistical theory of language translation is used to compare how a literary character speaks different audiences by diversifying two important linguistic communication channels: the “sentences channel” and “interpunctions channel”. can “measure” author shapes speaking audiences, modulating deep-language parameters. To show its power, we have applied corpus Maria Valtorta, an Italian mystic...

Memories in literary texts reveal past events which complete the itinerary of a character throughout the book. Whether they are exposed from the point of view of that character or from the perspective of the other characters joining the action, the memories bring novelties about the distant or the recent past to the actual action This explorative study intends to identify memories, with an ulte...

new criticism focuses on rigorous analysis of poetry and literature, irrespective of peripheral issues. its fundamental tenet is the autonomy of literary texts. therefore, new criticism shuns dealing with such peripheral issues as authors’ biography, social, political and historical events; since this approach considers all these issues as non-artistic. in principle, the followers of new critic...

Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroomconsists of nineteenchapters. The chapters of the book have been arranged into two parts: Part I, current issues and suggestions for new approaches (Chapters 1-6) and Part II, empirical and case studies (Chapters 7-19). The book takes multiple approaches to examine how literary texts can be incorporated into teaching practices inan EFLclassro...