A large number of novels are being uploaded as online novels. The present paper proposes a ranking algorithm based on the users’ favorite lists (bookmarks). Empirical evaluation has been conducted with respect to each genre of novels. In several genres, it is confirmed that the top ranked novels in July are predicted from the bookmarks of May.

Chinese online romance novels are aimed at female readers, which describe the love between women and men. Many young readers understand that have many conventions of plot, but they still engage with perfect handsome men beautiful women. This leads to a question: is reading related people's concept love? We cannot prove there causal relationship readers' view love. Although previous studies been...

This paper analyzed three middle grade novels and a short story from two cultures using the journey motif as the vehicle for the analysis. The three novels are Bud Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham both by Paul Curtis   and Journey to Jo’burg by Naidoo (1986). The short story is My Two Dads by M. Lee.  The three novels and a short story were chosen because these no...

A culture promoting a strong desire for romantic relationships can greatly influence feelings of romantic loneliness and of closeness. In this study, the authors hypothesized that when not in a romantic relationship, U.S. young adults experience greater degrees of romantic loneliness because of a high desire for romantic relationships, compared with Korean young adults. The authors also predict...

Female authorship of historical novels in the Romantic period (ca. 1750-1830) is critically established, but these insights have not yet come to fruition research on ballad collections. This article aims examine how Anne Bannerman (?1765-1829) uses form write fictional history. Her collection original ballads, Tales Superstition and Chivalry (1802), draws from margins past creates supernaturall...

We study perceptions of literariness in a set of contemporary Dutch novels. Experiments with machine learning models show that it is possible to automatically distinguish novels that are seen as highly literary from those that are seen as less literary, using surprisingly simple textual features. The most discriminating features of our classification model indicate that genre might be a confoun...

The study of the original and translated marine novels is still relevant. Considering longevity Ukrainian language creativity endless arsenal native tools for translating English novels, purpose given article to explore features metaphorical personification in translations Joseph Conradʼs «The Shadow-Line» by Olha Fyra «Typhoon» Mykola Roshkivskyi; find semantic bases idiostyle these texts, cla...

This study explored the interpersonal context of romantic autonomy in mid adolescence by examining within-relationship links with romantic intimacy and affiliation, links across relationships with mothers and friends, and individual differences due to age and gender. Two hundred and thirty adolescents in grades 9, 10 and 11 with a current romantic partner, completed self-report questionnaires a...

Three studies tested the expectation that automatic reactions elicited by the mental representation of one’s current romantic partner, mother, and self relate to adult romantic attachment. Adult romantic attachment was assessed using multiple measures, and individual differences in automatic reactions were assessed by the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Studies 1 and 2 showed that automatic re...