A Web-based Application for Writing Novels

AbstractIn this paper, we propose a method for assisting amateur writers in novel writing. Amateur writers can publish their work intensively through web infrastructures. This situation is beneficial, because it encourages amateur writers to enhance their skills by sharing their work. However, writing a good novel is difficult for a novice, because the novel-writing task requires the management of many character settings and maintenance of consistency throughout the novel. The length of a novel increases the difficulty of the task and decreases motivation owing to cumbersome management tasks. To reduce the burden, we introduce automatic keyword suggestion and highlighting techniques. Automatic keyword suggestion finds names of characters from the draft text and proposes their addition to the character list. The character names in the list are automatically linked to the corresponding words in the draft text. Using such functions, amateur writers can easily check the consistency of their novels while writing, similar to the use of an integrated development environment for software development. We have implemented a web application that provides the functions, and we consider the effectiveness of the proposed method here

Didacticism and the Male Reader in Samuel Richardson\u27s Pamela

In lieu of an abstract, below is the first paragraph of the paper. One might say that Samuel Richardson\u27s 18th century novel Pamela is essentially a love story that, like the chick lit of today, appeals mostly to a female audience. Contrary to the stereotype that women were the only ones who liked reading such works is the fact that males were also avid novelreaders. Admittedly, male readership is often a barely-trodden segment in the pathway of the study of novels - particularly novels such as Pamela, Frances Burney\u27s Evelina, and Thomas Hardy\u27s Tess of the D\u27Urbervilles. Considering Richardson\u27s emphasis on virtue, submissiveness, and obedience, it\u27s fairly straightforward to determine the messages that female readers are supposed to get from reading Pamela. The message intended for male readers, however, may be a bit more complicated. Young women know what they\u27re supposed to get from Richardson\u27s text, but male readers don\u27t, which means that multiple messages can be acquired from reading Pamela from a male perspectiv

Newfire\u27s Higher Education Partner Program

This paper announces the Newfire Higher Education Partners Program. It describes the program, participating institutions, and possible future development

Drawing Elena Ferrante's Profile. Workshop Proceedings, Padova, 7 September 2017

Elena Ferrante is an internationally acclaimed Italian novelist whose real identity has been kept secret by E/O publishing house for more than 25 years. Owing to her popularity, major Italian and foreign newspapers have long tried to discover her real identity. However, only a few attempts have been made to foster a scientific debate on her work. In 2016, Arjuna Tuzzi and Michele Cortelazzo led an Italian research team that conducted a preliminary study and collected a well-founded, large corpus of Italian novels comprising 150 works published in the last 30 years by 40 different authors. Moreover, they shared their data with a select group of international experts on authorship attribution, profiling, and analysis of textual data: Maciej Eder and Jan Rybicki (Poland), Patrick Juola (United States), Vittorio Loreto and his research team, Margherita Lalli and Francesca Tria (Italy), George Mikros (Greece), Pierre Ratinaud (France), and Jacques Savoy (Switzerland). The chapters of this volume report the results of this endeavour that were first presented during the international workshop Drawing Elena Ferrante's Profile in Padua on 7 September 2017 as part of the 3rd IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data. The fascinating research findings suggest that Elena Ferrante\u2019s work definitely deserves \u201cmany hands\u201d as well as an extensive effort to understand her distinct writing style and the reasons for her worldwide success

Theological Creative Nonfiction: Christian Literature for Christian Life

Since the Christian worldview is composed of more than theoretical truth, Christian literature should reflect these other aspects, such as how that truth is applied in the lives of the saints. Furthermore, the praxis element of worldview is reflected in literature more naturally in narrative genres than in more expository writings like systematic theology. Narrative genres mirror the complex, temporal way a person lives his life, and because of this are able to show how objective truth is applied in subjective situations. For this reason, Christians need contemporary writing that reflects the process of everyday Christian living to offer a model for growth and encouragement. Several authors have written books that can be classified as theological creative Nonfiction. They share the goal of encouraging the saints in everyday circumstances of faith as well as the methodology of drawing from the author’s own life and experience and are examples of the same model of theological writing that directly reflects and informs praxis

TWILIGHT AND INDONESIAN YOUNG ADULT FICTION TUILET’: A PARODY

This paper examines how Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight is parodied by the Indonesian contemporary young adult Tuilet. By using theory of parody, this paper is expected to provide a critical analysis of the teen novel which have similarities and differences in the title and character names of Meyer’s twilight. By applying the theory of parody, it will be seen how far the influence of the novel Twilight on Indonesian young adult fiction. Through cultural texts written for young readers, it will also be seen whether there is a shift in language use, especially among the youth or just simply the demands of consumerism

Fair Use and the Fairer Sex: Gender, Feminism, and Copyright Law

Copyright laws are written and enforced to help certain groups of people assert and retain control over the resources generated by creative productivity. Because those people are predominantly male, the copyright infrastructure plays a role, largely unexamined by legal scholars, in helping to sustain the material and economic inequality between women and men. This essay considers some of the ways in which gender issues and copyright laws intersect, proposes a feminist critique of the copyright legal regime which advocates low levels of copyright protections, and asserts the importance of considering the social and economic disparities between women and men when evaluating the impacts and performance of intellectual property laws