The inability of computing humanists to break into the mainstream of literary critical scholarship may be attributed to the prevalence of scientific methodologies and metaphors in humanities computing research—methodologies and metaphors that are wholly foreign not only the language of literary criticism, but to its entire purpose. Breaking out of this unfortunate misalignment entails reaching ...

The question posed by this text is: can we use Levinasian ethics in the field of literary studies? In order to provide answer, Levinas?s attitude toward art will need be analyzed. His work contains numerous scattered remarks about literature and other arts, but most explicit statement on relationship between found his essay ?Reality Its Shadow?. Since view is predominantly negative, it poses a ...

With the development of Bakhtin's theory of polyphony in literary criticism, the kind of attitude to literary texts has changed, and according to the needs of modern society, this discourse became the focus of attention of thinkers and literary theorists. Polyphony, with its own meta-lingual potentials, brings with it a new approach, a rethinking of the audience, so that the reader can have a n...