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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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What Can We Learn from Contextualist Narratology

Seymour Chatman
- 22 Jan 1990 - 
TL;DR: The Contextualists' chief objection to narratology is that it fails to take into account the actual setting in which literature is situated: "Far from being autonomous, self-contained, selfmotivating, context-free objects which exist independently from the 'pragmatic' concerns of 'everyday' discourse, literary works take place in a context, and like any other utterance they cannot be described apart from that context" (Pratt 1977: 115) as discussed by the authors.
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Generalized precedent logics for resolving insecurity dilemmas

TL;DR: Interrelated areas of empirical analysis will include experimentally generated behaviors and narratives from Sequential Prisioners’ Dilemmas and recently collected data on international conflict since 1945, in particular Butterworth's reports on conflict management by security‐oriented international organizations.
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Revelation's Hymns: Commentary on the Cosmic Conflict

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a discussion of conflict and theodicy in the context of the Hymnic Pericopes of 7.9-12 and 15.3-4.
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Citizen video journalists and authority in narrative: Reviving the role of the witness:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of citizen video journalists in the public sphere, with financial investments on a par with other mainstream hobbies, such as sports, music, and movies.
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Dramatizing Human Enhancement : how to turn a moral and social debate about a futuristic technology into a TV series screenplay

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the process of writing a science fiction TV series pilot screenplay that deals with the morally charged subject of human enhancement, and analyze the development of the writing process leading up to the final screenplay.