In an article in the Scottish cultural magazine, The Drouth, Mark Cousins provocatively bemoaned the lack of a vibrant film culture in Scotland. Putting Iran's cinematic achievements forward as a – perhaps surprising – example, Cousins identifies several reasons for Scotland's underdevelopment, most of which revolve around a lack of experimentation and a general absence of interest in exploring...

This study aims to describe the originators of western and eastern realism differences between realism. The method used schools by using qualitative methods collecting data documentation techniques, namely library research. results this are: First, figures Western are Gustave Flaubert, Guy De Maupassant. Second, in East Mahmud Taymūr, Taufiq El-Hakim, Najib Mahfudz. Third, West applies concept ...

Wanda Malecka’s literary work remains a proof of her gradual acknowledgment woman role in society. In the 1810’s and 1820’s she was experimenting with different Enlightment era genres, such as dialogue, fable anecdote. The representation femininity portrayed those works consequently mocking. romantic poem “Wyjątek z historycznego poematu Wanda” marks second phase, it brings heroic lead female c...

The features of reading communities and the psychology on Internet are considered, including phenomenon literary fanaticism, «popular» recommendation books, relationship between readers writers, advantages disadvantages reader criticism. reasons for confrontation criticism, as well that led to crisis professional literature examination analyzed. It is concluded overcoming in Russia depends more...

This study examines how reading habits affect people’s sensitivity to word distributions in literary and non-literary writing. We manipulated eight literary and non-literary passages, creating modified versions that had lower word chunk frequencies but higher individual word frequencies than the originals. Subjects were then asked to rate the passages’ quality of writing. Results showed that su...

The trope of critical reading as diagnosis draws on health humanities scholarship to enable responsive, collaborative readings that pair attention form (symptoms and signs) with a meticulous address how author, publisher, text, reader co-create diverse strands meaning within different settings. This model can assess most Victorian texts feature spectrum overlapping literary genres, these genres...

Task difficulty across different macro-genres continues to remain among less attended areas in second language development studies. This study examined the correlation between task difficulty across the descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository macro-genres. The three components of task difficulty (i.e., code complexity, cognitive complexity, and communicative stress) were also comp...

Poetry has a better place in form and content than other genres of literature. It gives life to the lifeless. Light, giving lightless messages as well. literature should be rich content, form, techniques. Literature infuse new interpretations feelings into every study. Only then will it become special course time. The beauty poem is that conveys meaning particular. Words have two kinds meanings...

Web-based learning communities have developed into a very popular vehicle for sharing information amongst students, researchers and enthusiastic users and are slowly gaining importance in the humanities field. Unfortunately, as data organization and information exchange in such communities are usually unstructured and strongly geo-localized, they generate serious interoperability issues. At the...