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Shiv Nadar University is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, research-focused, and student-centric University offering a full range of academic programs at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level. With state-of-the-art infrastructure, the University comprises of academic wings, sophisticated labs, international standard sports facilities, amphitheaters, auditorium, conference rooms and smart classrooms. The University&rsquo;s goal is to become internationally recognized for the quality of its research and creative endeavors and their applicability to improving quality of life, generating new insights and expanding the boundaries of human knowledge creativity. Committed to excellence in teaching, research and service, the University aims to serve the higher education needs of India and the world beyond.

Shiv Nadar University

This article surveys four cognitive strategies readers unwittingly use as they “concretize” the fictional worlds they encounter in fictional texts. The strategies are: the application of the “principle of minimal departure”; the use of “scripts”; the use of generic literary conventions; and the use of “theory of mind.” The article demonstrates that these strategies are “interpretive” in that they entail the use of various kinds of knowledge from outside the fictional text in order to enable the reader’s immersion in the fictional world. Most interestingly, the reader carries out these strategies entirely unawares. The latter part of this article focuses on the peculiarities of reader response that make such a phenomenology not only possible, but necessary.

(SoHSS) School of Humanities and Social Sciences

The EFL Journal

Unwitting Interpreters: Some Cognitive Strategies Used by Readers of Fiction

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia

Albums in the attic. An Investigation of photographic metadata

This essay responds to current scholarship as it explains the poor person’s horror of dissection in the Victorian period as part of a long and complex process of deprivation. Working with the Anatomy Act (1832) and the New Poor Law (1834) as its backdrop, this essay examines three anxieties that were inseparable from the pauper’s existence: the social embarrassment attendant on the loss of personal belongings, especially clothes; the humiliation forced upon workhouse inmates by the New Poor Law diet; and the existential foreboding triggered by the prospect of postmortem dissection. It culminates in a consideration of the early works of Charles Dickens, who found in fiction a set of strategies that allowed early Victorians simultaneously to register and to compensate for these anxieties. © 2017 The Trustees of Indiana University.

Victorian Studies

From dispossession to dissection: The bare life of the english pauper in the age of the anatomy act and the new poor law

SOAS University of London

Many Mahabharatas: Linking mythic re-tellings in contemporary India

Letters of 1916 is Ireland's first public engagement digital humanities project. Begun in September 2013, it collects, digitises, transcribes, encodes and makes available through its electronic platform epistolary documents written about Ireland between 1 November 1915 and 31 October 1916. This paper analyses the volunteer community associated with the project, inspects the levels of its engagement, studies its interests and motivations and considers how future projects can adapt this investigation into projects addressing community interactions. The basis for this inspection is a user survey carried out in Spring 2016, alongside an analysis of the transcriber community using data on transcriber activity from the beginning of the project in September 2013 to June 2016. The paper argues that the success of a public engagement project lies in the understanding of its community—an understanding derived within a critical framework, inspected through data analysis and communicated through visualisations.

World University root node

Fulltext

English Studies

Notes from the Transcription Desk: Visualising Public Engagement

Economic and Political Weekly

When harry met darcy

Critical Imprints

The Aftermath of Digitization: Studying the Synecdochic Photograph from the British Raj

Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies

SOAS Students Forum on Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Exploring dickens through a director's lens: A study of the cinematic presentation of a tale of two cities