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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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Narrative Voice and Agency in Drama: Aspects of a Narratology of Drama

Manfred Jahn
- 01 Aug 2001 - 
TL;DR: A categorical statement, I find, will never stay where it is and be finite as discussed by the authors, it will immediately be subject to modification by the other twenty-three possibilities of it.
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Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery

Per Persson
TL;DR: Understanding Cinema as discussed by the authors analyzes the moving imagery of film and television from a psychological perspective, arguing that viewers perceive, think, apply knowledge, infer, interpret, feel and make use of knowledge, assumptions, expectations and prejudices when viewing and making sense of film.
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When Narrative Brands End: The Impact of Narrative Closure and Consumption Sociality on Loss Accommodation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study consumers' experience of watching the end of a favorite television series and document the processes of loss accommodation triggered by the discontinuation of a TV series.
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Story and discourse: A bipartite model of narrative generation in virtual worlds

TL;DR: This approach adopts a bipartite model taken from narrative theory, in which narrative is composed of story and discourse, which is defined in terms of plans that drive the dynamics of a virtual environment.
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The Language of Life and Death: The Transformation of Experience in Oral Narrative

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the language of life and death, and present a view of death and life through a narrative view of the past, present, and future of the human body.