Title of Document: “NO WOMAN IS THE WORSE FOR SENSE AND KNOWLEDGE” : SAMUEL JOHNSON AND WOMEN Julia Robertson Acker, M.A., 2007 Directed By: Laura J. Rosenthal, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of English Language and Literature Accurate understanding of Samuel Johnson’s treatment of women depends on the range of primary and secondary texts one has read. Images of Samuel Johnson have b...

This paper presents a joint work between artificial intelligence and literary studies. As part of the humanities, textual genetic criticism deals with writers’ rewriting processes. By studying drafts and manuscripts issued from these processes, the genesis of the text is discovered. When draft comparison is done manually, it requires a huge amount of work. The introduction of the machine provid...

The classic readers-writers problem has been extensively studied. This holds to a lesser degree for the reentrant version, where it is allowed to nest locking actions. Such nesting is useful when a library is created with various procedures each starting and ending with a lock operation. Allowing nesting makes it possible for these procedures to call each other. We considered an existing widely...

This article attempts to investigate how Chinese women writers themselves understand binary genders. Being named as the Aother,@ feminists in the west can speak from a politically Adifferent@ position against centered patriarchal ideology. By contrast, Chinese women in the 1980s find their female gender completely inscribed within the state feminism, which emphasizes Aasexuality@ rather than Ad...

the main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in esp and egp subdisciplines of applied linguistics. eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to thompson and tribble’s (2...