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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

31 May 1980-
About: 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.
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Dissertation
16 Feb 2011
TL;DR: This research seeks to develop a descriptive framework to characterize and describe interactive and game narratives by applying and extending narrative theory and applies this framework to three games to unravelled how various narrative principles and techniques operate in games.
Abstract: With rapid innovation in computational technologies, storytelling has found a new home in interactive digital media. Among all forms of interactive narrative, story-based digital games are clearly the most prosperous domain thanks to their incredible popularity. Narrative design for such games, however, is often under studied in the current practice of game analysis due to the lack of a mature discourse model specifically for games and interactive narratives. To facilitate a deep understanding of game narratives, powerful analytical instruments are needed to characterize game narratives and describe how narrative works in games. This research seeks to develop a descriptive framework to characterize and describe interactive and game narratives by applying and extending narrative theory. The framework aims to bring out new insights on interactive storytelling by observing how game narratives are constructed, what narrative techniques are used, and how narrative structure and technique affect the narrative and gameplay experience. By applying this framework to three games, the in-depth analyses systematically unravelled how various narrative principles and techniques operate in games and demonstrated the utility of the framework as an analytical instrument for the observation and understanding of the structure of interactive narratives.

11 citations

Journal Article
TL;DR: In this paper, a modelo general de análisis del discurso desarrollado by el Groupe Aixois de Recherches en Syntaxe (Blanche-Benveniste, this volumen) se aplic6 was used to detect the organización sintáctica of the narrativa infantil.

11 citations

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21 Mar 2019-Religion
TL;DR: The first stand-alone glossary of New Testament narrative-critical terms in the English language is as mentioned in this paper, which is an alphabetical listing of prominent terms, concepts, and techniques of narrative criticism with illustrations and cross-references.

11 citations

Dissertation
01 Sep 2013

11 citations


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  • ...  Figure  2.3  Constructs  of  a  Narrative  Text  (Chatman  1978)  ……………………………....

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  • ...      2.3.3  Gameplay  and  Narrative  ………………………………………………..       2.3.4  Notable  Examples  …………………………………………………………....

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  • ... Why  Narrative?...

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  • ...  2.3.3  Gameplay  and  Narrative     In  Rules  of  Play,  Salen  and  Zimmerman  present  a  hybrid  definition  of  ‘a  game’  which   is  constructed  from  what  they  perceive  to  be  the  most  relevant  parts  of  eight  other   definitions  previously  proposed  by  a  range  of  historians,  sociologists,  designers  and   philosophers....

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  • ... Narratives  of  Personal  Experience....

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TL;DR: The Research-oriented Social Environment (RoSE) as mentioned in this paper is a socially networked system for representing knowledge in the form of relationships between people, documents, and groups developed as an intercampus, interdisciplinary project of the University of California.
Abstract: We report on the experience of creating a socially networked system, the Research-oriented Social Environment (RoSE), for representing knowledge in the form of relationships between people, documents, and groups Developed as an intercampus, interdisciplinary project of the University of California, this work reflects on a collaboration between scholars in the humanities, software engineering, and information studies by providing an opportunity not only to synthesize different disciplinary perspectives, but also to interrogate and challenge the assumptions each brings to team-based design projects in the digital humanities This work examines socially networked knowledge as both content and methodology for collaboration, calling for further critique and future investigation of epistemological questions in models of social networks

11 citations


Cites background from "Story and Discourse: Narrative Stru..."

  • ...At the most basic level, narrative can be understood as a temporally structured story and its telling (Chatman, 1978)....

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