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Dramatic greatness and content: A quantitative study of eighty-one Athenian and Shakespearean plays.
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Dean K. Simonton, 1983, 1:2, 109-123.
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Three hypotheses specified the possible direct and indirect determinants of a play's greatness and issue content. The sample consisted of eighty-one plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Shakespeare. Each play's dramatic greatness was operationalized using a citation measure. The Great Books Syntopicon was used to define nineteen issue content domains and general issue richness. Multiple regression analyses indicated that 1) dramatic greatness is a positive function of line quotability, which in turn is a positive function of issue richness, and 2) the particular issue or themes addressed in a play are affected both by the playwright's personal age and by the presence of civil unrest at the time of composition.
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Metaphor interpretation as selective inferencing: Cognitive processes in understanding metaphor (Part 2).
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Jerry R. Hobbs, 1983, 1:2, 125-142.
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In Part 1, the importance of spatial and other metaphors was demonstrated. An approach to interpreting metaphor in a computational framework was described, based on the idea of selective inferencing, in which a processor draws or refrains from drawing certain inferences in a controlled fashion. Two examples of metaphors were examined in detail in this light- a simple metaphor and a spatial metaphor schema. In Part 2 a novel metaphor is examined and there is a discussion, from this perspective, of some classic issues concerning metaphor, including the analogical processes that underlie metaphor, the stages in the life of a metaphor, and the definition of metaphor.
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The high tiger in South Nias, Indonesia.
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Jerome A. Feldman, 1983, 1:2, 143-156.
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Every seven or fourteen years a festival was held in the southern part of Nias Island, Indonesia, in which a giant tiger image from each of four or five villages would be disposed of in a local river. The effigies represented the rulers of prominent villages and by extension, the lineages which provided those rulers. The purpose of the ceremony was to renew society and as such many of the organizational structures of South Nias culture were incorporated into the offering. The "high tiger," as it was called, embodied dualistic principles and rich metaphorical references. It was also a ritual substitute for the ruler in an otherwise dangerous period of transition. Upon completion of the ceremony, power was restored to the rulers, standardized weights and measures were reset and life returned to normal patterns for the next seven or fourteen years.
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On the acquisition of aesthetic, escapist, and agentic experiences.
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Elizabeth C. Hirschman, 1983, 1:2, 157-172.
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The present study investigated a set of eleven aesthetic and recreational activities according to the types of experiences they provide. Aesthetic, Escapist and Agentic experiences were studied. Aesthetic experiences were defined as those that absorb one's full attention and arouse one's senses and emotions to a state of transcendance. Escapist experiences were defined as those sought as desirable substitutes for a presently anxious or unpleasant state. Agentic experiences are those that the individual uses in an instrumental fashion to acquire information or learning. lt was found that the dimensions underlying activity similarity for each type of experience included: presence vs. absence of a story line, nonvisual sensory stimulation, active vs. passive participation, solitary vs. group involvement and in-home vs. out-of-home setting.
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Toward an empirical science of literature.
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Helmut Hauptmeier, 1983, 1:2, 173-191.
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This article describes the general goals and results of a scientific approach which dissociates itself from scholarly studies of literature by organizing the field empirically. After remarks on the historical background of the so-called NIKOL conception of an empirical science of literature, I shall outline the three levels needed for the construction of an empirical science of literature: epistemology, metatheoretical presuppositions, and object-theories (i.e., theory consisting of four sub-theories). Value dimensions underlying these levels will be discussed together with practical application of the theory. Current and past projects as well as the future tasks of an empirical science of literature will be presented in the final section. Because the concepts and the structure of an empirical theory of literature are bound to the structure and function of scientific theories and to the notion of empirical knowledge, I shall first survey foundational issues in the hope that this mode of presentation will help the reader appreciate the scope of our approach.
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Measuring the lengths of punctuated units in prose: An application to Hawthorne.
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Robert Froese, 1983, 1:2, 193-204.
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An author's punctuation, though easily neglected as a stylistic feature, contains valuable information about the process of writing prose. Earlier authors, in particular, punctuated according to sound as well as syntax. Quantitative measurement of the lengths of punctuated units (or "utterances") reveals the prevailing patterns according to which un author segments a text. By this approach, the present paper aims at a first approximation of Hawthorne's fundamental generative unit above the lexical level. The study combines a computer analysis with close reading and limits its scope to eighteen of the short stories. The data indicate that Hawthorne works with a phrase-size unit of five to seven syllables and that rhythm is a strong factor in determining the linear arrangements of words in the text.
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