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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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Educating Nomads: Narratives and the Future of Civic Education.

TL;DR: In this article, Dubnick argues that the very nature of what civic education entails must be rethought as the cultivation of a relevant "narrative" that will engage students in U.S. civic life.
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Charaktersynthese und Paraperson. Das Rollenverhältnis der gespielten Fiktion

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a kommunikativen Austausch zwischen Leinwandpersonen und Zuschauern, der in vielem an den kommuneausch erinnert realen Personen.
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Narratee and Implied Readers in the Manolito Gafotas Series: A Case of Triple Address

TL;DR: The Manolito Gafotas series as mentioned in this paper has become a popular children's book series in Spanish literature, with over a million copies sold by the year 2000, reaching a new record for Spanish books for young people.
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Sociology, narrative, and the quality versus quantity debate (Goethe versus Newton): Can computer-assisted story grammars help us understand the rise of Italian fascism (1919–1922)?

TL;DR: In this paper, a structural approach to narrative, based on the work of Propp, Labov, van Dijk, Halliday, and others, is presented, where the subject is typically a social actor and the verb a social action.
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Terence Davies and the cinema : an intertextual study of his films

TL;DR: This paper examined the oeuvre of the British filmmaker Terence Davies between 1976 and 2011 and found that his work from this period can be separated into two distinct categories: autobiographical films and literary adaptations.