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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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Comic strips and theories of communication
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the B.C. series by Johnny Hart to illustrate the problem of graphological arbitrariness of the English language, which is further complicated by substituting the numeral 4 for the grapheme "four".
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Narrative, Action, and Learning: The Stories of Myst
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that video games make virtual experiences feel embodied or real to players through their narrative shape, and that games narrate an imagined world in which the purposive actions of players characters have consequences, and it is in relation to this story that learning becomes situated.
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The nightmare and the narrative.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that a dream report is rarely a complete story and can be utilized when we can conceptualize the dream as a fragment implying a narrative whole, where the nightmare can be seen as a piece which consistently halts at what would be the climax of a plot.
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The Morality of Television Genres: Norm Violations and Their Narrative Context in Four Popular Genres of Serial Fiction
TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative content analysis, social norm violations and their narrative context are analyzed in 225 episodes of 15 television series of four popular television genres (crime drama, medical drama, sitcom, and daily soap).
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The Power of Double Coding to Represent New Forms of Representation: The Truman Show, Dorian Gray, "Blow-Up," and Whistler's Caprice in Purple and Gold
TL;DR: In the doubly coded (embedded) section, the subordination of one voice to the other voice is so extreme that the section can be likened to a duet sung by one voice as discussed by the authors.