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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
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Self-referential play gone wild : a case for the "Roman bourgeois" as metafiction
Abstract: The Roman bourgeois is a text which has resisted traditional modes of criticism, and thus it has confounded critics who simply did not know what to make of this hybrid work. It has been generally considered to be a novel which lacks coherence and literary merit, and spells the end of the cycle of seventeenth-century comic novels. This study proposes that the Roman bourgeois be considered as a metafictional text, where textual "anomalies" could be considered as "positive" attributes since they draw attention to the fictional framework and the fiction-making process of the novel. The novel operates according to the guiding principle that language is an imperfect conduit for representing "reality." Subversion, which runs rampant in the text, is one of the most important strategies which emphasize the problematics of representation. This is effectuated, for example, through intertextual references, as well as the multiple identities of the narrator. The following topics are analyzed in light of this problematic: The novel's prefaces, which problematize the notions of beginnings and authorship; the narrator, who presents himself as the central force of both organization and disorganization; the narratee, who functions as a device of the narrator; the
Illustrating a Computer Generated Narrative
TL;DR: This work describes a computer model that generates visual narratives and presents details of the composition process and explains how the graphic elements employed to produce a coherent narration are generated.
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Constructing the Concept of the “Interactive 3D Documentary” — Film, Drama, Narrative or Simulation?
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TL;DR: In this article, a new genre concept, Interactive Three-dimensional Documentary (IDD), is introduced, as opposed to analysing and implementing a pre-existing genre concept.
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Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of narratological theory based on a "semio-c model of narra- ve, with chapters on plot, se' ng, characterisa' on, and narra� on, as well as on language and theme".