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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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Identifying the structure of a narrative via an agent-based logic of preferences and beliefs: Formalizations of episodes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation™

TL;DR: The doxastic game fragment of actual narratives from the TV crime series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation™ is determined, and a small number of basic building blocks sufficient to construct the doxastics game structure of these narratives are identified.
Dissertation

Writing Fighting: Critical Cognitive Approaches to the Language of Killing in War

TL;DR: This article investigated the ways in which soldiers use language to report and structure their experiences of conflict and examined autobiographical descriptions of acts of killing from wars across the 20th and 21st century.

Narrative in psychotherapy theory, practice, and research: A critical review

TL;DR: A critical review of narrative approaches to therapy, in terms of theory, practice and research, is given in this paper, where it is argued that narrative approaches currently lack a theory that explains adequately how the reworking of narratives brings about changes and how a client's various narratives are integrated.
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Duration experience under conditions of suspense in films

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored whether variations in the temporal succession of breakpoints affects temporal expectancies, and thereby affects duration experience, and found that the duration experience under conditions of suspense in film results from the violation or confirmation of temporal expectation.
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Where the Bodies are Buried: Cartesian Dispositions in Narrative Theories of Character

Genie Babb
- 01 Oct 2002 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the body has been examined in the context of character formation in narrative theory, and the body's representation in written discourse has not been mapped to a specific narratological frame of reference.