Writer's Attitude Research Articles

A Hybrid for Analyzing Text Streaming Using Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques

Human opinions and feelings can be studied and analyzed in various fields. Sentiment analysis divides data into neutral, positive, and negative categories to classify a writer's or speaker's attitude toward various topics or events. This study uses a hybrid approach that combines (Particle_Swarm_Optimization PSO) with machine learning classifiers (Artificial Neural_ Networks ANN, Naïve Base NB, and Support.Vector.Machine SVM). Following the preprocessing phase of each data collection, a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) will be used to create feature vectors, preparing the raw data as a stored labeled dataset with three classes (positive, negative, and natural). After that, with two hidden layers whose parameters were optimized by PSO, this dataset will be prepared for classification using NB, SVM, and ANN. The best results will be obtained with the proposed Artificial Neural Network A.N.N which is close to 99% Acc. value, about SVM Acc. equal to 92%, and NB 89%, better than using the same ML algorithms

A Linguistic Study of Metadiscourse Markers in Local Government Regulation for Tourism Development

Abstract. Study on metadiscourse covers various genres of texts, both academic and non-academic texts. This study concerns the genre of regulation that is still rarely studied. It aims to explain the types and functions of metadiscourse in local government regulation. By using descriptive qualitative design, it studied the local government regulation for Sumenep tourism development in particular for the front matter and the section of the core content of the regulation, excluding part of the explanation or attachment. Data in the form of clauses and sentences used which contain metadiscourse markers. Results of the study have shown that there are transitions, endophoric markers, and evidentials of interactive metadiscourse. There are no frame markers and code glosses. Endophoric markers are the most frequently used functions to refer to information from the text previously stated, evidentials that refer to information from other texts are mainly used to refer to other forms of the constitution, laws, ministerial regulation, and other government regulations as the basis of regulation drafting, and the least is transitions that functions to relate between main clause to be coherent and easily understood as a whole text. Meanwhile, all categories of interactional metadiscourse markers are not found in this genre of regulation. The use of metadiscourse markers can assist in engaging the reader by signaling the writer's attitude, position, or assessment of the presented information. This can render the text more interactive and persuasive.Keywords: metadiscourse, regulation, tourism, Sumenep, Madura

Omar Faik Nemanzadeh Education Problem and Professional Competency of a Teacher

The article reflects the views of O.F. Nemanzadeh on the problem of education, on teacher’s profession the effective organization of the learning process. The great writer's attitude to enlightenment and education was brought to the fore. It was noted that O.F. Nemanzadeh worked as a teacher in many places, enlightening children and youth by teaching of secular knowledge. He opened schools in Sheki and Shamakhi, where he taught pedagogical skills and was engaged in school management. The article also noted that the school opened by Seyid Azim Shirvani in Shamakhi became the first school of new style. Therefore, the school that O.F. Nemanzade opened is considered the first new school that advanced according to its own methods and rules. The article also talks about the teaching activity of the great educator, intellectual O.F. Nemanzade in Shamakhi. Both in the schools he opened and, in the articles, he wrote O.F. Nemanzadeh showed that knowledge should be given to children not only during classes, but also at home. He spoke about the considerable usefulness of lessons for children, about their role in the development of knowledge and skills. There are significant differences between children studying at school and those studying at madrassas (religious school), since schoolchildren constantly exchange questions with those who study at madrassas. O.F. Nemanzade went to Ganja for treatment and couldn’t keep himself away of informing the reader about the current situation there. He talked about the fact that the situation in Ganja has been divided into two parts - the old and modern period. The article also draws attention to O.F. Nemanzadeh’s views on the teacher, how to be a real, professional teacher, and the role of the teacher in the development of human society. The great writer brought to the fore the problem of education in Sheki, Ganja, Baku and its difficulties, and the attitude to the field of education was elaborated in biographical sequence.

Religious and Moral Ideas in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Journalism

The paper uses journalistic works (op-ed pieces for the media, speeches, press conferences, interviews, etc.) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to reveal the formation and development of religious and moral issues in the writer's worldview. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn continued the historical line of Russian political and social thought, which had always been characterized by polyphony, ambiguity, and variability. The writer himself had repeatedly drawn attention to how important it is to understand the dependence of philosophical attitudes of a thinker on their life experience and age. In the mature period of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's career, the main aspects of his religious idea can be highlighted. Firstly, the opposition to the ideological legacy of the rationalist philosophy of the modern age and the criticism of the idea of constant progress as an example of “delusional philosophy”, the desire to legitimize the sacred in the political discourse, the postulation of the need to abandon the political language in reflections on social problems and return to the language of spiritual and moral writings can be mentioned here. Secondly, this is the recognition of the organic connection of religious consciousness with the national cultural type, the critical attitude to globalism and unification, the desire to preserve the national identity as a guarantee of the spiritual development of mankind, since a nation emerges around a religious idea and preserves it. The paper also examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's understanding of the phenomenon of the nation and the intelligentsia, as well as the reasons for the writer's skeptical attitude to the prospects of cultural convergence between East and West. According to the writer, both competing models of sociopolitical development — bourgeois democratic capitalism and the communist utopia of economic equality — are based on the same spiritual foundations: rationalism and naive Rousseaism in understanding human nature, cosmopolitanism and recognition of the issue of the distribution of wealth as the key issue of human existence. The convergence of social systems suffering from the same vices in their slightly different forms would lead to nothing but the multiplication of these vices.

Метод событийно-психологической диагностики и «китайское пророчество» Джека Лондона

The article examines the «Chinese prophecy» of Jack London, reflected in his 1910 story «The Unparalleled Invasion». The essence of the writer's prediction boils down to a collision in the distant future of the United States and China, as a result of which Chinese civilization will be completely destroyed by biological weapons. The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, which swept around the world and began in 2020 in the Chinese city of Wuhan with a clear «American trace», suggests that Jack London's «Chinese prophecy» was confirmed 110 years after the publication of the story. In addition to the general plot, there are a number of smaller and more specific forecasts in the story, which amaze with their accuracy. To explain the phenomenon of «Chinese prophecy», a simple model of futurological success is proposed, which is based on a formula according to which the success of a prediction is determined by the underlying scientific method and the individual intuition of the writer. Examples and facts show that Jack London really relied on these two components of creative success. Some important discrepancies between the «Chinese prophecy» and the current reality are revealed; the role of the writer's original existential attitudes, characteristic of Western civilization, in the nature of forecasts and perception of future events is shown.

Patient Dostoevsky

The medical topic in Dostoevsky's life and work is diverse, multifaceted and autobiographical. Family, everyday life, observations, analysis of symptoms of diseases formed the personal and creative experience of the future author. Dostoevsky, having an analytical mindset, was deeply interested in medical issues, which manifested itself in his work, where he described the illnesses of his heroes with factual accuracy. The writer's illness was a factor of criticism and literary creativity. In critical literature, it is mainly discussed in the biographical aspect: the influence of epilepsy affects the writer's work, the pathography of the author and the heroes of his works is studied, their mental illnesses are analyzed. What was Dostoevsky's epilepsy like? did she help or hinder his creativity? was it evidence of his genius or degeneracy? — critics who are interested in the psychiatric diseases of genius are trying to answer these questions. In this article, the systematization of well-known and little-known evidence of Dostoevsky's diseases is carried out, the writer's attitude to medicine is presented, the features of the diagnosis of his diseases are considered, the artistic embodiment of the diseases of his heroes is analyzed, research prospects are outlined.

The phenomenon of fear in Ukrainian literature for children and youth about the events of the Holodomor of 1932-1933

The article considers the forms of manifestation of fear and the specificity of their representation in Ukrainian works for children and youth about the events of the Holodomor of 1932--1933. Its relevance is emphasized, as the state of threat and the appearance of fear as a basic reaction to it have become the modern realities in Ukraine. The state of research of the issue in Ukrainian literary studies is outlined; the principles of classification of forms, functions, and types of fear are taken into account. It is determined that works about the Holodomor take an important place in the sphere of historical prose, which accumulates a complex of historical knowledge, becomes an important factor in the formation of the national identity of the personality. While analyzing the short stories "Kandor" by Y. Zbanatskyi, "Bevka" by M. Mahera, "Velykyi Zlochyn Malenkoho Mykhasia" (Great Crime of Little Mykhas) by Oleksa Kobets, "Chorna Khustka" (Black Shawl) by M. Ponedilok, "Skrynia" (Chest) by K. Yehorushkina, and the story "Try Skhodynky Holodomoru" (Three Steps of the Holodomor) by E. Zarzhytska, it has been found out that the dominant type of fear in the artistic sphere of the works is fear for physical existence, fear of hunger (to be hungry, to see a hungry person, to see a person who died of hunger). It is determined that in Ukrainian fiction on the Holodomor theme real fears (fear of power, fear of being left at home alone, fear of the dark, fear of death, fear of a particular person, fear of being punished) and metaphysical ones (horror, anxiety) are represented by techniques of psychological analysis, reproduction of states of the nature, metaphors, symbols which lay stress on the writer's attitude and style.

The tailed hero is a trickster in Sasha Cherny's story "The Cat Sanatorium"

The article presents an analysis of Sasha Cherny's novel "The Cat Sanatorium" (Rome, 1924 – Paris, 1928), the main character of which is considered as the archetype of the trickster. Beppo the cat takes revenge on his master for the hurt and pain caused, but this behavior turns against him: he finds himself on Trajan's forum, where homeless cats and cats live. Beppo does not find a place for himself in a new space for himself. The cat world does not become his own family for him, and for the inhabitants of the forum he remains an oddball. Freedom and independence are the sacred values for which he plays with death itself. Beppo is the image of a tramp, a homeless, but free and independent cat. The study reveals the main features of the trickster archetype in the image of the main character. It is also noted that Sasha Cherny's personal impressions of his stay in Rome, his experience of the historical realities of the turning point of the twentieth century and the writer's creative attitudes towards creating works for children are intertwined in the story.The scientific novelty of the work lies, firstly, in the fact that the "Cat Sanatorium" is subjected to a comprehensive analysis for the first time: the system of images, its structure, and autobiographical elements are considered, and secondly, the main character of the story is confirmed for the first time as a trickster hero. The relevance of the research will be determined by the growing interest in the literature of the Russian diaspora, and in particular, in the work of Sasha Cherny.

Antropološki aspekti identiteta junaka "Nečiste krvi" Bore Stankovića

In light that the novel "Impure Blood" by Borisav Stanković covers the events, family and social relations, in the defined area, a small-town in the south of Serbia, at specific time, from 1850 to 1900, so make it possibly to research the aspects of human life as the central point of the turmoil of that time and that space. In interpretations of the parts from the novel "Impure Blood", the writer's attitude towards individual human fates in social situations in Vranje, after liberation from the Turks, can be seen. The anthropological aspect of the problem issue is addressed to the main figures (Effendi-Mita and Landlord /"Gazda"/ Marko) of the social communities given in the novel, urban and rural, but also to their descendants. In this novel, Bora Stanković described a series of tragic fates of the characters who were often in disgrace of unwritten rules of their background and inherited patterns of manners. Bora's characters experienced a drama of identity due to the collapse of merchant families that had a prominent and privileged place in the small-town, but also because of the collision with new times that spreading rural families into town. This led to the mixing of two worlds in which money began to determine social relations and to disrupt self-reliance of personality. Therefore, all these circumstances further complicate the role of an unfinished man looking for his identity, confirming or denying the personal need and experience of ancestors. Stanković's characters are in deep discord with themselves and others, and as such they proved incapable and weak to struggle for their own identity. The paper is also dealing with possible reasons for such choice of the characters.

A 1-Gram Sentiment Analysis Algorithm for Detecting Cyberbullying in Online Social Networks

Online social networking (OSN) sites in addition to providing business and recreational opportunities are fast becoming a breeding ground for cyberbullying activities. Cyberbullying is an act of harassing or insulting a person by sending messages that are hurting or threatening in nature using electronic communication. Such messages include threats, harassment, and humiliating messages to victims. Other forms are sexual harassments, sexual predating, etc. Cyberbullying poses threat to the physical and mental health of the victims. In this study, sentiments analysis was used to computationally recognize and categorize the opinions, views, and ideas expressed in a piece of text in social media to determine and establish whether the writer's attitude towards a particular topic, person, or a product is positive or negative. The study adopted both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Posts from Facebook were collected and analyzed. The software developed during the research was able detect the presence of cyberbullying in user contents. Results showed promising ability of the software to detect and suspend cyberbullying contents.

The Crisis of Liberati in George Gissing’s New Grub Street

George Gissing is a famous essayist and novelist in the late Victorian era. His masterpiece New Grub Street reveals the negative impact of literary marketization on literature and even culture by describing the different living conditions of literati. The novel depicts three different types of literati images, namely idealists who adhere to artistic standards, utilitarians who cater to the market, and female writers who are on the edge of literature, thus reflecting the writer's critical attitude towards the social reality that literature has become a commodity.

Bayesian game model based unsupervised sentiment analysis of product reviews

Sentiment Analysis is a task of computationally recognizing and contextualizing opinions stated in a text. We mainly assess whether the writer's attitude towards a specific topic, or a product, is positive, negative, or neutral. Numerous machine learning and fuzzy logic methods have been reconnoitered for sentiment analysis. Yet, the application of mathematical optimization techniques for sentiment tagging is still unexplored. This study presents a novel mathematical framework for sentiment analysis of reviews based on Game Theory. We identify whether the sentiment of a review is positive or negative. In the first step, we comprehend a review and derive context scores from review comments using the SentiWordNet lexicon. We comprehensively combine the computed context and rating scores using the Bayesian Game Model to deduce the sentiment of reviews. Experimental results on three benchmark review datasets, viz. Food, Mobile, and Electronics demonstrate that the proposed model yields state-of-the-art results. We also statistically validated the stability and correctness of the results. The proposed model ensures rational and consistent results. The utility of the game theory model for sentiment analysis creates a new paradigm for diverse NLP tasks.

Book Review: Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, New York: Penguin Press, 2021.

Forget the Alamo is the latest in a lengthy line of books focusing on the Alamo and the Texas founding myth. The book is the product of three authors and native Texans: Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford – two journalists and a political strategist. Tomlinson is a business correspondent for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express. His most recent work, Tomlinson Hill, is a study of the author’s family’s slave-holding past. Stanford is a Democratic strategist and former director of communication for Austin mayor Steven Adler. Burrough, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, is best known for his book, Days of Rage, a study of toxic, fringe radical movements during the 70s and 80s. It is Burrough’s reputation as a political moderate that lends this work a credibility it would otherwise lack. Written in two parts, the first ten chapters address the battle of the Alamo and the events leading up to the disaster with the remaining chapters examining the historiography of the Alamo in relation to the Texas Revolution and attitudes of writers since the battle. The text concludes with a discussion of the Alamo as a renewed source of political capital for right-leaning political actors.

Sentimental Analysis-A Review

Abstract: Sentiment can be defined as a view or opinion that is held or expressed. Whereas, sentiment analysis (SA) is a process of computationally identifying and categorizing opinions expressed in a piece of textual content, particularly to decide the writer's attitude towards a particular topic, product or issue. SA also known as opinion mining is widely used in many domains such as products, services, issues and politics to analyze user’s behaviors or opinion regarding the related topics. Sentiment analysis is used to analyse the review of product, political issues, reviews on the social media such as face book, twitter, movies etc. where the different users can provide feedback and analyze it. It is also important for Business development by providing the product review and knows exactly what the customer wants. In this work, we have reviewed the latest developments in sentiment analysis. Keywords: Machine Learning, Supervised Learning, Support Vector Machine, Naive Bayes.

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Dialect words are extensively used in H. Oshakan’s short prose and aim at solving various stylistic problems. They are used in the author’s speech so as to give vivacity, brevity, emotionality, credibility to writing and sometimes to express the writer's attitude. In the characters’ speech dialect words contribute to the personalization, naturalness, vividness, mental recreation of the rural environment.

Русские классики о православной империи как идеальной для России форме государственного устройства

The article analyzes the views of Russian classics on the Orthodox empire, proves the deep understanding of the term ‘statehood’ by the writers and poets. Much attention is paid by the author of the article to the problem of the harmonious balance between law and mercy. In Russia the sovereign was treated not as a person who established rules and could violate justice, but as the highest judge on earth, who had the opportunity to act not according to the law but according to a special mercy. The paper provides the view of modern lawyers on the principle of mercy in Russian law. The absence of legislative enshrinement of this principle is regarded by the author of the article as the preservation in today's Russia of the proportions between the legal formalization of norms and the existing Orthodox covenants and holy traditions. The paper indicates an inaccurate understanding of the views of many writers on the figure of the emperor. Science has not completely refuted the myths about Pushkin as an opponent of autocracy and a supporter of democratic freedoms or Nekrasov as a revolutionary-minded poet, created in the Soviet era but still supported by some researchers. A comparison of Tolstoy’s fiction works and his non-fiction writings shows the writer's ambivalent attitude toward the highest authority. However, Tolstoy condemns not the very organization of power structures, but rather the arbitrariness encouraged by people at the local level, who do not cope with their duties and welter in vice. In the literary worlds of Tolstoy, the idea of ​​the only way to correct injustices committed at the state level is associated with the image of the emperor. Using a number of examples, the article proves that, with a deep vision of the problems of public life, faults and errors of officials at various levels, our classics realized the value of a single strong centralized power of the sovereign.

Peculiar Features of Oriental Motifs’ Realisation in M.Y. Lermontov's fairy tale Ashik-Kerib and T. Gautifer's novella La Mille et Deuxième Nuit

The article discusses various authors' approaches to the implementation of oriental motifs based on M.Y. Lermontov's fairy tale Ashik-Kerib and T. Gautier's novella La Mille et Deuxième Nuit. Lermontov's adherence to the fairy-tale canon as well as the development of the love motif based on oriental bookishness, the Russian writer's respectful attitude to the Orient culture realised through delicate use of oriental details taking the reader's reception into account, and the elimination of European clichés depicting the psychological portrait of oriental characters are noted. It is shown that T. Gautier's novella La Mille et Deuxième Nuit, on the contrary, represents a bright aesthetic stylization in a pseudo-oriental manner abundant in exoticisms and orientalisms, and imitating the genre of the monument of Arabic and Persian literature The Thousand and One Nights and a frame narrative. There have been discovered a number of inaccuracies in the use of oriental color, the writer's casual attitude to the psychology of characters and Orient culture as a whole, which is indicative of viewing the Orient only as an experimental aesthetic platform. Extended abstract: The article discusses various authors' approaches to the implementation of oriental motifs based on M.Y. Lermontov's fairy tale Ashik-Kerib and T. Gautier's novella La Mille et Deuxième Nuit. The article is aimed at showing the peculiarities of the Oriental motifs’ functioning in the Russian literary fairy tale by Lermontov and in the French novella by Gautier. The article is based on the hypothesis about Lermontov's high esteem of the foreign cultural fundamentals, while Gautier perceives the Orient superficially, as an exotic component of the French literature. The analysis of Lermontov's fairy tale Ashik-Kerib and Gautier's novella La Mille et Deuxième Nuit is based on the comparative method, with elements of historical-typological, hermeneutic and mythopoetic methods involved. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that the analysis of Lermontov's fairy tale Ashik-Kerib and Gautier's novella La Mille et Deuxième Nuit in the comparative aspect has been carried out for the first time. As a result of the study, the following conclusions were made. Lermontov's adherence to the fairy-tale canon as well as the development of the love motif based on oriental bookishness, the Russian writer's respectful attitude to the Orient culture realized through delicate use of oriental details taking the reader's reception into account, and the elimination of European clichés depicting the psychological portrait of oriental characters are noted. Lermontov's work Ashik-Kerib combines the international fairy-tale narrative model with the psychological literary school experience. According to the fairy tale laws, the numbers 7, 4, 3 and 2 become relevant here. The appointment of lovers who faint due to the exuberance of feeling, is described in the spirit of Nizami's poems. It is shown that T. Gautier's novella La Mille et Deuxième Nuit, on the contrary, represents a bright aesthetic stylization in a pseudo-oriental manner abundant in exoticisms and orientalisms, and imitating the genre of the monument of Arabic and Persian literature The Thousand and One Nights and a frame narrative. The density of the use of lexemes with the meaning «East» («Orient») in the novella is very high – they occur 11 times in various combinations. The main character of the novella resembles the idler Aladdin from the cycle of Persian origin about Harun al-Rashid. The interior descriptions are also permeated with Oriental luxury. Gautier takes to the technique of mise en abyme (multiplying the punishment line). There have been discovered a number of inaccuracies in the use of oriental color, the writer's casual attitude to the psychology of characters and Orient culture as a whole, which is indicative of viewing the Orient only as an experimental aesthetic platform.

Zaytsev, B. (2018). <i>Reflections of the Eternal. Unknown short stories, essays, reminiscences and interviews</i>. Ed. by A. Lyubomudrov. St. Petersburg: Rostok. (In Russ.)

The review is concerned with a collection of hitherto unknown prose by B. Zaytsev that uncovers new aspects of his oeuvre. The collection covers literary variants of famous essays, hitherto unpublished short stories from before the October Revolution, and travelogues showing the writer's attitude to the spiritual and creative culture of the West. The reviewer points out the problem of the interaction between Russian literature and its European counterparts (particularly French literature) and defines the criteria (the Christian ideal and ‘common human compassion') used by Zaytsev for its assessment. Mentioned are the authors especially favoured by Zaytsev (F. Mauriac, A. Maurois, and G. Duhamel). Also noted is the writer's polemic with Western authors. The collection offers a treasure trove for scholarly reflections on literature and religion, as well as on Russian emigre literature versus Soviet and Western literatures.

Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia

Specific lexical choices in narrative text reflect both the writer's attitudes towards people in the narrative and influence the audience's reactions. Prior work has examined descriptions of people in English using contextual affective analysis, a natural language processing (NLP) technique that seeks to analyze how people are portrayed along dimensions of power, agency, and sentiment. Our work presents an extension of this methodology to multilingual settings, which is enabled by a new corpus that we collect and a new multilingual model. We additionally show how word connotations differ across languages and cultures, highlighting the difficulty of generalizing existing English datasets and methods. We then demonstrate the usefulness of our method by analyzing Wikipedia biography pages of members of the LGBT community across three languages: English, Russian, and Spanish. Our results show systematic differences in how the LGBT community is portrayed across languages, surfacing cultural differences in narratives and signs of social biases. Practically, this model can be used to identify Wikipedia articles for further manual analysis---articles that might contain content gaps or an imbalanced representation of particular social groups.

김내성의 추리소설 혹은 김내성식 대중소설 -『마인』의 대중적 인기 요인 분석

이 글은 김내성의 첫 장편소설이자 추리소설인 『마인魔人』(1939)이 당대 독자들에게 높은 인기를 얻었던 요인을 다각도로 분석하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 추리소설의 불모지였던 한국 문단에서 『마인』의 인기는 이례적인 일이었다. 추리소설은 번안물/번역물정도가 전부였던 당시에 김내성은 말그대로 추리소설을‘개척한’작가이다. 그러나 김내성은 1940년대 이후 여러 편의 대중소설을 창작해 높은 인기를 구가하였고 그의 작품들은 라디오와 텔레비전 드라마, 영화로도 각색되어 한국 대중문화 전반에 적지 않은 영향을 미쳤다. 이러한 김내성의 문학 이력 전체를 고려한다면, 그를‘한국 추리소설의 대명사’로만 지칭하는 것은 그가 이룬 성과들을 오히려 한정하는 것이다. 이는 또한 『마인』의 성공 요인을 ‘대중문학’의 관점으로 접근할 것을 재고한다. 실제로 ‘추리 요소의 부재’를 한계로 지적받는 『마인』을 완성도 높은 장르문학으로 보기는 어렵기 때문이다. 그리고 『마인魔人』이 내재한 대중적 요소들에는 ‘광의의/방계적/변격적인’ 추리소설을 지향한 작가의 소설관,‘ 통속성’이 아닌 ‘대중성’을 강조한 작가의 문학관이 반영되었다 할 것이다.이에 본고는 『마인』의 대중적 성공이 크게 세 가지 요소에서 기인하는 것으로 분석하였다. 첫 번째는 주인공인 탐정 유불란의 성격이다. 유불란은 논리보다는 직관에 의존하고, 사건을 해결할 때는 한 발 늦거나 잘못된 예측을 내놓는 문제적인 탐정이다. 유불란은 결코 유능한 탐정이 아니다. 그러나 유불란이 보여주는 어리숙함과 헛점들은 『마인』에 ‘유머’를 부여한다. 종종 발생하는 유머러스한 상황들이 유불란의 이러한 성격으로 인해 작품에 자연스럽게 제시될 수 있는 것이다. 두 번째는 멜로드라마적인 요소와 이의 배경이 되는 도시 경성이다. 작품 인물들의 거개가 연애의 삼각 구도를 형성하고 있고 이들의 관계는 ‘가상의 도시’경성에서 펼쳐진다. 『마인』 속의 경성은 당시에 실제하지는 않았으나. 외국영화들을 통해 대중들에게는 익숙한 화려함과 역동성을 지닌 도시이다. 그렇기에 대중들에게 낯익되 낯선 경성의 풍경은 극장 체험에 버금가는 흥미를 선사할 수 있었다. 세 번째는 작품 속에 숨어 있는 ‘필자’의 목소리이다. 이 역시 극장의 ‘변사’와 같은 역할을 하며 독자에게 인물의 감정이나 배경을 생생하게 전달하는 기능을 수행한다. 필자의 목소리는 여기에서 그치지 않고 독자와 직접 소통하며 서사와 사건의 진행을 입체적으로 전달한다.살펴보았듯, 김내성의 『마인』은 추리소설로서의 완성도를 성공의 척도로 보기는 어려운 소설이다. 그러나 탁월한 감각을 지닌 대중문학 작가로서의 김내성은 추리소설인 『마인』에 ‘유머소설’, ‘연애소설, 대중문화의 첨병인 영화적 요소를 녹여내여 대중들의 뜨거운 호응을 이끌어 내었다.