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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.

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Why Literary Time Is Measured in Minutes

Ted Underwood
- 01 Jun 2018 - 
TL;DR: The authors argued that critics are bad at understanding narrative form as something that takes time, and instead they try to convert narrative into a timeless structure, or condense stories into a few scenes that convey the meaning of the whole.
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Musical Macrostructures in The Gold Bug Variations and Orfeo by Richard Powers; or, Toward a Media-Conscious Audionarratology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors connect audionarratological concerns with the (trans- or inter-medial) extensions of narratology offered by scholars such as Marie-Laure Ryan and Werner Wolf.
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The Evolution of Story Spaces of Digital Games beyond the Limits of Linearity and Monotonicity

TL;DR: The introduced story space concept is compliant with a variety of recent research endeavors and allows for a lucid representation of phenomena which are crucial to the understanding of ways in which stories may be perceived when playing a digital game.
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The fate of a man by sergei bondarchuk and the soviet cinema of trauma

TL;DR: A number of films that came out in 2004-2005 as part of the sixtieth anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, showed the war as a tragedy for those who had fought in penal battalions, had been taken away by the NKVD, or had been prisoners of war and were then convicted as traitors and sent to Soviet labor camps.
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As We Speak: Concurrent Narration and Participation in the Serial Narratives "@I_Bombadil" and Skam

TL;DR: This article analyzed the use of concurrent narration in two digitally distributed serialized narratives, David Mitchell's Twitter story "@I_Bombadil" (2015) and the Norwegian webserial Skam (2015-17), both of which were originally transmitted piecemeal in near-concurrence with the narrated events.