Book Genre Research Articles

Reading promotion mode of university libraries in the context of information development

Abstract This paper mainly proposes a technical route of user profiling based on multi-view clustering and constructs a multidimensional and multi-view reader feature system based on reader behavior data. According to the constructed reader feature system and the defects of the classical K-means algorithm in multi-view clustering, a multi-view dichotomous K-means algorithm based on Marxian distance is proposed. Using the proposed algorithm for multi-view clustering of readers, the user portrait features of readers can be obtained, and finally, a university library user portrait system is designed and implemented. By analyzing the behavior of college students through the user portrait technique, we get that the most preferred book genre of college students is literature accounting for 71.45%, followed by science and history with 57.64% and 51.37%, respectively. The most popular form of reading promotion among college students is classical film and television exhibitions, accounting for 63.73%, followed by lectures by celebrities and experts, accounting for 60.91%. The highest influence on college students going to the library is too many spare time activities, accounting for 64.38%, and not choosing books, accounting for 36.95%. These data can help libraries understand readers’ needs and provide help for reading accurate recommendations and services based on readers’ user profiles.

Миксантропические персонажи и их роль в графическом романе М. Этвуд «Ангел-Котоптиц»

The aim of the study is to determine why the famous Canadian writer Margaret Atwood turns to mythological characters that have a hybrid, or mixanthropic, appearance in her graphic novel ‘Angel Catbird’ (2016). The paper examines the history of the development of the comic book genre and its special format, the graphic novel; emphasis is also placed on the different attitudes to this genre among Russian and foreign researchers. Moreover, the features of M. Atwood’s graphic novel ‘Angel Catbird’ and its differences from other works in this genre are considered. The study concludes with an analysis of the nature of the main characters and their connection not only with human nature (in a narrow sense), but also with the peculiarities of the development of Canadian literature and culture in general (in a broad sense). The scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the paper considers the system of images of the novel ‘Angel Catbird’ from the perspective of the duality of their consciousness and mixanthropic appearance. In addition, it is the first time that M. Atwood’s graphic novel has been analysed taking into account the use of mythological images and traditions of different peoples. As a result, it has been proved that the use of mixanthropic characters in the graphic novel is linked to the multifunctionality of their images.

A Comprehensive Machine Learning Framework for Automated Book Genre Classifier

A Comprehensive Machine Learning Framework for Automated Book Genre Classifier

Tell me how you write and I'll tell you what you read: a study on the writing style of book reviews

PurposeThe authors’ goal is to investigate variations in the writing style of book reviews published on different social reading platforms and referring to books of different genres, which enables acquiring insights into communication strategies adopted by readers to share their reading experiences.Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose a corpus-based study focused on the analysis of A Good Review, a novel corpus of online book reviews written in Italian, posted on Amazon and Goodreads, and covering six literary fiction genres. The authors rely on stylometric analysis to explore the linguistic properties and lexicon of reviews and the authors conducted automatic classification experiments using multiple approaches and feature configurations to predict either the review's platform or the literary genre.FindingsThe analysis of user-generated reviews demonstrates that language is a quite variable dimension across reading platforms, but not as much across book genres. The classification experiments revealed that features modelling the syntactic structure of the sentence are reliable proxies for discerning Amazon and Goodreads reviews, whereas lexical information showed a higher predictive role for automatically discriminating the genre.Originality/valueThe high availability of cultural products makes information services necessary to help users navigate these resources and acquire information from unstructured data. This study contributes to a better understanding of the linguistic characteristics of user-generated book reviews, which can support the development of linguistically-informed recommendation services. Additionally, the authors release a novel corpus of online book reviews meant to support the reproducibility and advancements of the research.

A Cross-Cultural Examination of Parents’ Book Selection & Shared Reading Practices in Spain and Israel

ABSTRACT Research Findings: Cultural differences emerge in the home literacy environment and the nature of shared book-reading (SBR), yet the impact of culture on parents’ book selection remains unexplored, despite the centrality of the book in SBR. Parents in Spain (n = 132) and Israel (n = 123), two Western countries with different cultural patterns, reported their considerations in buying/borrowing books, support for books’ socio-emotional and structural complexity, and frequency of SBR of different genres. In both countries, the book’s summary on the back of a book was a key selection criterion. In Israel, other parents’ recommendations, sale price, and child’s choice were important when selecting books, while in Spain, educators’ recommendations ranked higher and less autonomy was given to children. Israeli parents showed stronger support for books’ socio-emotional and structural complexity. Parents in both countries favored narratives over other genres for SBR. Relations emerged between child’s sex and book genre, with greater frequency of reading e-books with boys than girls in Spain and greater frequency of informational books with boys than girls in Israel. Frequency of SBR related to support for books’ complexity in Israel more than Spain. Practice or Policy: A cross-cultural approach can help facilitate culturally-appropriate guidance to parents regarding selecting books for SBR.

The Normal Foreskin

Abstract Puberty marks a time of significant transition in the life of a boy as he progresses toward adulthood—and a time of confusion and concern. Many questions are likely thought or asked by the boy as he approaches and lives with puberty. Sex education is taught formally and informally, in the home, on the schoolyard, in the media. Over the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, publishers have produced numerous books about puberty and its experience for young readers. In this article, I consider a specific debate that unfolds in these books, namely, circumcision. To these ends, I define the circumcision debate, briefly consider the genre of puberty books, and analyze the circumcision debate in these books. While these books recognize a circumcision debate, they ultimately frame the circumcised penis or intact penis as equally viable and normal.

Use of Computer and Corpus Tols in the Research of a 19th Century German -Language Manuscript Bok of Notes and Extracts

Abstract The study explores the possibilities of using computer and corpus tools in the interpretation of texts of the genre of book of notes and extracts; these are documents consisting of extracts and modified excerpts from contemporary press and literature, records of the author’s own thoughts, etc. Samuel Ferjenčík’s manuscript is a Germanlanguage document by a Slovak author intended for private use; cited or adapted passages are usually given without any reference to the source. The paper introduces the problems of automatic identification of the source base, which relate to the application of OCR and content similarity detection tools. It discusses the results of text matching, which revealed several manipulations of source texts, especially substitutions, indicating attitudes and priority problems in the author’s thought-world. It further interprets the results of the use of the Sketch Engine corpus manager tools by which the frequency of occurrence of key terms and their collocability were investigated, paying special attention to substituted words. The paper is an example of the application of computer and corpus-linguistics methods to the interpretation of literary texts, which is represented by a number of current studies in the field of digital humanities. The proposed approaches are applicable to research on other books of notes and extracts, topical in the context of research trends related to egodocuments, as well as to textual research on monu ments of other genres.

Witnessing Between History and Poetic Image, Imagination and Fascination (I Am, Damir Uzunović)

This paper aims to show the specific structure of the design of Uzunović's novel I Am, which on the one hand inherits a postmodern approach to the structure, and on the other hand, succeeds in concealing the relativism of the organization of the world with a zone of emotions. Genre-wise, Uzunović's novel fits in the novel book genre, in which the bildungsroman is enriched with a cultural image of a travelogue, that is, a chronotope of its events. For this reason, in this novel, the questioning of the identity of his hero concerning what was offered to him by the place and time of his birth will come to the fore, then the questioning of the subject's alienation in the zone of the Other, from which again a fragmented writing style will emerge, which, finally, will have its generalization of profits based on the phenomenon of universal sympathy.

Book genre suggestions based on using algorithms

A scientific study of statistical models and algorithms is known as machine learning. K-N N and matrix are two machine learning methods utilize in this study factorization. The BX books dataset is used in the system for recommending books. Collective selection and material-based sorting systems are both employed the suggestion method as a selection strategy. To offer to a customer the "rank" or "first alternative" for an element, pattern filtering is used. Information regarding the customer's initial choice on unique subjects related to movies, literature, travel, TV, and business, among other things, was collected during the suggestion process. On the other hand, a system for selecting and recommending that works makes use of the customer's past performance or history. Cooperative sorting is a technique for analyzing and comparing categories among users.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Hedges in Silent spring under the Perspective of Adaptation Theory

Vagueness is a natural property of human language. Hedges, as a special form of vague language, are widely used in human language. On the basis of Adaptation Theory, this paper makes a pragmatic analysis of hedges in Silent spring. The study finds that the writer realizes three pragmatic functions by adapting to the physical, social and mental world. These three pragmatic functions are: increasing the accuracy of the information, reducing personal responsibility and expressing motions. This paper may be helpful to further studies on the genre of science books.

The Archival Book as an Experimental Dialogue in Public History

This article argues for a new genre of book making which I call an archival book that is created to present archival material to the public. The book discussed here was published as a commemorative volume in 2010, soon after the centenary of the Indian physicist, Homi Bhabha. The archival book described here attempted to move away from the celebratory coffee table format and focused instead on the archives of the scientist. The article tries to define the key characteristics of the archival book that is meant for the public and not exclusively for a scholarly community and the challenges of presenting archival material in this form. Finally, the article focuses the inter-disciplinary nature of the archival book-making project and the collaborative way in which the writers and designer can work together in order to make the archives accessible, especially in countries where archives remain inaccessible to the general public.

Sarah Fielding's Feminist Literary Pedagogy, in Which Nasty Women Become Novel Writers

This paper explores how Sarah Fielding's The Little Female Academy (1749) and The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1757) made feminist, formal, and pedagogical interventions in the novel genre. Both books feature morally flexible characters who show their female communities how to critique and create excellent, plausible fictions. These literary women have too long been flattened in our scholarship into the quintessential anti-exemplars of the conduct book genre: a catch-all for unorthodox women's writing in the eighteenth century. It is time to reconsider Fielding's works as metafictional novels, full of covert feminist lessons for an increasingly diverse public of readers.

Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveys.

Large amounts of studies have shown that reading behavior is an important aspect for the development of students' reading skills. The construct reading behavior as examined in large-scale assessments and surveys within the field of empirical educational research is operationalized through a wide range of reading and reading-related aspects (e.g., reading time, reading frequency, print exposure, reading engagement, book genre preferences, knowledge of authors or book titles) and a broad array of measurement methods are used. The approaches to measure the same variable - namely reading behavior - differ fundamentally from each other, while at the same time, a clear concept that would help to classify the used measurement instruments and to interpret them in relation to the superordinate construct of reading behavior is missing. Therefore, the present article aims to give an overview of methods to measure reading behavior within the context of large-scale assessments and surveys, and to discuss how they were implemented. Finally, we make some suggestions on how it might be possible to relate the applied measurement approaches to each other, especially in terms of their content and theoretical relationship to the overarching construct of reading behavior.

An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan

AbstractWhile participating in the discourse of world religions, Japanese biographers published accounts of Muhammad’s life in many genres of academic and popular books during the Meiji and Taisho eras (1868–1926). This article unravels how these biographical accounts played a crucial role in facilitating a geographical imaginary of Asia/the East which incorporated both Japan and West Asia. Situated in a radically different context from the Victorian biographers who inspired them, Japanese biographers constantly compared Muhammad to historical figures familiar to them, most notably Buddha and Nichiren, and reinterpreted the life of Muhammad, relying exclusively on European-language sources. In particular, in contrast to another strand of pan-Asianism that stressed peacefulness as an inherent quality of the East, the biographers identified Muhammad’s perceived militancy and the miracles he performed as signs of the values shared by Japan and Islamic civilization. Using the person of Muhammad as a concrete piece of evidence, Japanese biographers reimagined an Eastern civilizational space that could stretch from Tokyo to Mecca.

Edward Thomas as a Travel Book Writer

The aim of this paper is to examine Edward Thomas’s literary representations of his walks and bicycle rides from the perspective of the development of the genre of the travel book in Britain. The paper provides a brief outline of the history of the synergy and friction of travel books with the genres of the novel and the autobiography, and the ways in which the developing naturalist and pedestrian discourses influenced travel books and travel accounts. A key argument constructed and developed in the second part of the paper is that the combination of Thomas’s dissatisfaction with the loose collage-like nebulousness of his early travel accounts from Beautiful Wales (1905) to The South Country (1909) and his wide knowledge of 19th-century British travel writers resulted in two ‘conventional’ travel books The Icknield Way (1913) and In Pursuit of Spring (1914), in which Thomas relied on such standard generic features as the diary format and the central role of the narrative persona.

“Have another?”: Edwin Drood ’s Princess Puffer and the Distorted Ethics of Victorian Hospitality

ABSTRACT: Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood features Princess Puffer, who masters the tenets of Victorian hospitality while subverting their foundational purpose of social cohesion. This analysis explores Puffer’s rhetoric of hostessing through the genre of Victorian etiquette books and its gendered advice about serving, eating, and drinking. But as the hostess of an opium den, she distorts that purpose by employing hospitality rituals—not for social cohesion, but for fragmentation, individually and nationally. Traditional fears about witchcraft and contemporary fears about female poisoners encapsulate the specter of female defiance. Princess Puffer’s perversion of hospitality rituals casts her as a threat, as the antithesis of the Angel in the House, offering a vision of an England that is externally prosperous while deteriorating from within.

Childhood guide. Review of the monograph by M.A. Perepelkin “Around “Nikita's Childhood”: world - word - meaning”

The article is a review of the monograph by M. Perepelkin Around Nikitas Childhood: world word meaning (Samara, 2021). Having established that the monograph author sees his task in introducing extensive factual material into historical and literary use and reasoned comments on both textual and iconographic documents, the reviewer focuses his attention on those aspects that seem to him the most important. Such aspects include, for example, the intricacies of landowners property relations, one of which was A. Bostrom - the A. Tolstoys stepfather, blanks in A. Tolstayas biography - the writer's mother, the objective world of A. Tolstoys childhood and the childhood of his literary hero, the reading circle of the Tolstoy family and the many-faced circle of people who lived or visited the Bostrom-Tolstoy house in Sosnovka. In the reviewers opinion, the most fundamental and meaningful information comprises also the monograph section devoted to the history of perpetuating the memory of writer A. Tolstoy in Samara and the Samara region. All the above stated allows the reviewer to conclude that the monograph under review tends towards the commentary book genre, and after its reading not only the Nikita's Childhood story, but also the Zavolzhsky cycle works, and a whole number.

Current Status, Problems and Recommendations on exporting Chinese Books’ Copyrights to United States

with rapid economic development and deeper internationalization process, the international trade of Chinese goods and services are no longer restricted on labor-intensive products. In recent ten years, the exporting of Chinese books’ copyrights on Chinese publications demonstrated a booming trend. However, despite the rapid development of exporting business of Chinese books’ copyrights, the exporting volume to United States, however, only contributes approximately 9% of the entire exporting volume. This paper begins by summarizing the contemporary status of exporting Chinese books’ copyrights to United States, which attempts to investigate the underlying reasons on impeding the exporting business. Several problems have revealed through the study including insufficient copyright protection legislative system, limited book genres, unitary advertising and distribution channel, and the deficiency of publishing trade practitioners. The corresponding recommendations have been proposed from the governmental, industrial as well as enterprise perspective, which aims to tackle the problem encountered by Chinese books’ copyrights exporting business.

Eavesdropping Books as Testimony: Witnessing Secondhand Crimes Against Humanity with Young Children

AbstractHow do educators talk about trauma with young children? Specifically, how do they address children's secondhand experiences of crimes against humanity? In this article, Cara E. Furman argues that classrooms for young children must witness these experiences. A genre of picture books that Furman terms “eavesdropping texts” offer testimony that both witnesses and invites children's secondhand experiences of crimes against humanity. Here, Furman couples a close reading of the books with literary criticism and trauma theory in order to showcase the nuances of the genre and the pedagogical potential of eavesdropping books for young readers.

Cover-based multiple book genre recognition using an improved multimodal network

Cover-based multiple book genre recognition using an improved multimodal network