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Narrative discourse : an essay in method

23 Jan 1980-Comparative Literature (Cornell University Press)-Vol. 32, Iss: 4, pp 413
TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
Abstract: Foreword by Jonathan Cutler Translator's Preface PrefaceIntroduction 1. Order 2. Duration 3. Frequency 4. Mood 5. VoiceAfterword Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: This paper examined how well one's perception of self is communicated to familiar others and found that self-concept is presented through personal narrative, such self-presentations function as impression management, view of other is present through narrative, and narrative presentation of a familiar other reflects the familiar other's selfconcept.
Abstract: The telling of personal narratives is one form of presenting self to others that begins early in life and crosses racial, ethnic, and cultural boundaries. Not only do we present ourselves through narrative, those with whom we are involved present us to others through narrative. The purpose of this study was to examine how well one's perception of self is communicated to familiar others. One hundred targets each brought a perceiver to the experiment. The target and perceiver were separated and given a series of questionnaires to complete. The target and the perceiver were then asked to tell a personal narrative about the target. Findings include the following: (a) Self-concept is presented through personal narrative, (b) such self-presentations function as impression management, (c) view of other is presented through narrative, and (d) narrative presentation of a familiar other reflects the familiar other's self-concept.

27 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The authors surveys and discusses interdisciplinary approaches to primarily Artificial Intelligence (AI)based computational narrative or story generation systems by way of introducing cognitive science, and narratology and related literary theories.
Abstract: This chapter surveys and discusses interdisciplinary approaches to primarily Artificial Intelligence (AI)based computational narrative or story generation systems by way of introducing cognitive science, and narratology and related literary theories. The first part of this chapter provides a general description (from the perspective of the research framework of the author) and the second part presents processes, theories, designs, and implementations of narrative generation by the author. In particular, the first part includes an overview of narratology and the relevant literary theories, computational and cognitive theories and techniques related to narratology and narrative generation, and narrative generation systems. The second part presents, in relative detail, components that constitute a systematic study for narrative generation by the author and an integrated narrative generation system of all of the previous attempts.

27 citations

Dissertation
18 Feb 2008
TL;DR: This thesis has worked on three aspects of interactive storytelling: plot, spectacle, and experience, and focused on a method for avoiding unwanted plot twists by predicting the progression of a story and altering its course if such twists are detected.
Abstract: Interactive storytelling is a new form of storytelling emerging in the crossroads of many scholarly, artistic, and industrial traditions. In interactive stories the reader/spectator moves from bein ...

27 citations

Dissertation
28 Dec 2014
Abstract: Around 1840 the Continental watering place took off as a destination of international appeal—and as a topic in an internationalizing print culture. My thesis, drawing on a broad range of theories of intertextuality, uses the case of the waters to model the farrago of transmissions, contacts and collisions that go into the making of a common-place in discourse. In particular I show how writing from multiple genres and national literatures helped establish the spa's identity as a deeply ambivalent locus of encounter—a venue that both tickled and deflated cosmopolitan ambition. Key points of reference include Dostoevskii'sThe Gambler, Edmund Yates's sensation novel Black Sheep (both 1867) and Henry James's spa fiction (‘Eugene Pickering’, Roderick Hudson and Confidence)—but also Punch and the Russian satirical journal The Alarm Clock (Budilk’nik), the travel writing of Joel Tyler Headley and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Murray's Handbook for Travellers on the Continent. The elaboration of a topic is above all an exercise in collective (if not concerted) sign-making; and like any potent sign, I suggest with reference to temporally outlying works of resort fiction by Bruce Chatwin, Mikhail Tsypkin and W.G. Sebald, the nineteenth century's 'watering-place text' stubbornly refuses confinement to the age that produced it.

27 citations

01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Slant, a system that integrates more than a decade of research into computational creativity, and specifically story generation, is introduced by connecting subsystems that deal with plot, figuration, and the narrative discourse using a blackboard, showing how different genres can be computationally modeled and applied to in-development stories to generate results that are surprising in terms of their connections.
Abstract: We introduce Slant, a system that integrates more than a decade of research into computational creativity, and specifically story generation, by connecting subsystems that deal with plot, figuration, and the narrative discourse using a blackboard. The process of integrating these systems highlights differences in the representation of story and has led to a better understanding of how story can be usefully abstracted. The plot generator MEXICA and a component of Curveship are used with little modification in Slant, while the figuration subsystem Fig-S and the template generator GRIOT-Gen, inspired by GRIOT, are also components. The development of the new subsystem Verso, which deals with genre, shows how different genres can be computationally modeled and applied to in-development stories to generate results that are surprising in terms of their connections and valuable in terms of their relationship to cultural questions. Example stories are discussed, as is the potential of the system to allow for broader collaboration, the empirical testing of how subsystems interrelate, and possible contributions in literary and artistic contexts.

27 citations

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