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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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Choice of predicate and narrative manipulation. Functions of dearu and da in modern Japanese fiction

TL;DR: The authors examined the two forms of copula, dearu and da, in modern Japanese fictional discourse and found that dearu is effective in expressing a conceptual view most frequently taken from the text-producer's position external to the scene and it usually constitutes a narrative discourse.

The Shape of Games to Come: Critical Digital Storytelling in the Era of Communicative Capitalism

Sarah Thorne
TL;DR: The authors analyzes a selection of narrative games through the clinical structures of neurosis, perversion, and psychosis to understand how players interact with these systems, and provide a framework for theorizing how the complex interaction between a game's narrative and mechanics might be adapted to resist and disrupt communicative capitalism.
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Narrativity and creativity in oral storytelling: Co-constructing a story with the audience:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine narrativity and creativity in an interactive oral storytelling context where the teller engages the audience directly in the story and draws on concepts from narratology and stylistics.
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Web supported emplotment: using object and event descriptions to facilitate storytelling online and in galleries

TL;DR: This paper presents a set of plot relations developed in collaboration with museum professionals from two national galleries in Ireland, and shows how theories of narrative and digital cultural heritage research have informed the development of an ontology and system to support the authoring of curatorial narratives.
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Narrating Voices in the Screenplay Text: How the Writer Can Direct the Reader’s Visualisations of the Potential Film

TL;DR: The field of screenwriting research is divided into two different strands that can be separated through their points of focus as discussed by the authors, and one of these strands focuses on the screenwriting process: that is, the process of writing and revising the screenplay text during a film's development stage.