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Category Archives: African literature
Gyimah Gariba, illustrator from Ghana
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IGEL 2016 conference: Stephen Briner on parody
An interesting paper at the recent IGEL 2016 conference was by Stephen Briner about detecting and reasoning about parody texts. The question is how easy it is to discern parody in the absence of a referent text or absence of … Continue reading
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