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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
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The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.read more
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Impulse: a Formal Characterization of Story
TL;DR: A novel representation of narratives at the story level called Impulse, which combines a temporal representation of a story’s actions and events with a representation of the mental models of the story's characters into a cohesive, logic-based language.
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The Presence and Image of the Translator in Narrative Discourse: Towards a Definition of the Translator’s Ethos
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Hearts of darkness and hot zones: The ideologeme of imperial contagion in recent accounts of viral outbreaks
TL;DR: The authors situates recent popularized accounts of emerging lethal viral strains within the context of a late nineteenth-century rationale for imperialism, i.e., the ideologeme of scenic contamination, which justified imperialism as a "defensive" measure designed to control and quarantine the unpredictable and chaotic forces of the underdeveloped world.
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Before or beyond narrative? Towards a complex systems theory of contemporary films
TL;DR: The author argues that, because of the fragmentation and nonlinearity that contemporary complex films display in all three narrative dimensions of time, causality and space it is not enough to approach them solely as complex narratives.
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Narrative Means to Lyric Ends in Wordsworth's Prelude
TL;DR: For instance, the authors pointed out that The Prelude of William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude is radically achronological, starting not at the beginning, but at the end of the walk to the Vale that I had chosen, and further observed that in the course of The Prelude Wordsworth repeatedly drops the clue that his work has been designed to round back to its point of departure.