Narrative discourse : an essay in method
TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
Abstract: Foreword by Jonathan Cutler Translator's Preface PrefaceIntroduction 1. Order 2. Duration 3. Frequency 4. Mood 5. VoiceAfterword Bibliography Index
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The nomenclature of research in digital design and development is often confusing and contested – the field of Augmented Reality is no exception, confirmed by a recent episode from everyday life of Academia.
Abstract: Theory, terminology and reality often interact in complex and complicated relationships, particularly in disciplines where the material base is evolving rapidly, such as in ICT-related domains As a consequence, the nomenclature of research in digital design and development is often confusing and contested – the field of Augmented Reality is no exception This is confirmed by an recent episode from everyday life of Academia
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: This paper explored methodologies for comparing island writing by turning to contemporary literature in English from the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific archipelagoes, foregrounding the important contributions made by island writers to postcolonial discourse and literature.
Abstract: Is it possible to speak of island literatures in global, comparative terms? Are geography and colonial history both so influential that we can say that they have produced an identifiable body of postcolonial island literatures? This chapter explores methodologies for comparing island writing by turning to contemporary literature in English from the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific archipelagoes, foregrounding the important contributions made by island writers to postcolonial discourse and literature. Although one might arguably define every land mass on the globe as an island, this chapter focuses on the literary production of former European colonies in the global south, particularly tropical islands with plantation, diaspora and creolization histories, as well as indigenous literatures in white settler nations. Although the concerns explored here are not restricted to island contexts, this chapter suggests that the collusion of geography and history has made these particular issues more prevalent in contemporary island writing than in other bodies of postcolonial literature. Colonial narratives and the tourist industry have long depicted island space as remote, isolated and peripheral to modernity. Yet island writers have demonstrated the ways in which centuries of transoceanic diaspora and settlement have rendered island spaces as vital and dynamic loci of cultural and material exchange. Contrary to the assumption that the privileged sites of history and modernity are continental (or generated from the British archipelago), many scholars have demonstrated that tropical islands and peoples were integral to the development of anthropology, botany, environmentalism, plantation capitalism, nuclear weapons and even the English novel.
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TL;DR: The results of the experiments show strong support that Prevoyant effectively generates a discourse structure for surprise arousal in narrative, and a methodology to evaluate surprise in narrative generation using a planning-based approach based on the cognitive model of surprise causes.
Abstract: This paper describes our effort for a planning-based computational model of narrative generation that is designed to elicit surprise in the reader's mind, making use of two temporal narrative devices: flashback and foreshadowing. In our computational model, flashback provides a backstory to explain what causes a surprising outcome, while foreshadowing gives hints about the surprise before it occurs. Here, we present Prevoyant, a planning-based computational model of surprise arousal in narrative generation, and analyze the effectiveness of Prevoyant. The work here also presents a methodology to evaluate surprise in narrative generation using a planning-based approach based on the cognitive model of surprise causes. The results of the experiments that we conducted show strong support that Prevoyant effectively generates a discourse structure for surprise arousal in narrative.
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08 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The relevance and purpose of the generic prominence of the motif of παρθενία in the Greek novels of the first centuries A.D. is explored in this article.
Abstract: The question asked by this thesis is twofold: first, what is the relevance and purpose of the generic prominence of the motif of παρθενία in the Greek novels of the first centuries A.D., and secondly, what is the broader significance of female virginity in ancient Greek literature. In order to answer this double question, the first part of the thesis examines in detail a number of literary texts from Early Greek Literature in which the theme of παρθενία is a central concern. Thus, a close reading of Homer’s Odyssey reveals the crucial role played by παρθενία in mapping imaginary spaces such as Scheria. A close reading of Sappho sheds light on the sense of continuation that exists between a girl’s premarital stage and her wedding and marriage, which will prompt a definition of Greek marriage as “the symbolic preservation of παρθενία.” In contrast, by focusing on unsuccessful, distorted weddings and marriages, Greek tragedy nonetheless upholds the necessity of a smooth, unbroken transition between virginity and the wedded state in order that a successful marriage be possible. The chapter on Aeschylus’ Suppliants focuses on the incomprehensibility of the concept of παρθενία from a non-Greek point of view, that of the pre-Greek daughters of Danaus and their suitors. The second half of the thesis moves forward five centuries and examines the generic relevance of παρθενία in the Greek novels. Most of these novels (including fragments) are interested in this theme, which appears to be associated with the double affiliation of the novels to fictional literature (generically in verse) and referential literature (generically in prose). Moreover, these novels stress the continuity between the premarital stage and marriage, as the discordant iii accounts of Lycaenion and the main narrator at the end of Longus’ novel about the effect of the wedding on the παρθένος imply. The final chapters devoted to Longus, Achilles Tatius, and Heliodorus highlight the complex connections between the virginity of the female protagonist, the descriptions of nature or created objects, the interest in the text as artifact and the auctorial distancing.
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01 Jan 1954
TL;DR: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954 as mentioned in this paper, et les images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque
Abstract: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954.Deux images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque.
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