The Lazy Wife: A Manx Folk-Tale

The Heroine with a Thousand Faces: Universal Trends in the Characterization of Female Folk Tale Protagonists

Literary scholars and psychologists have long remarked striking similarities in the depiction of male heroes in the world's folk tale traditions. The best-known attempt to document and explain these similarities is Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1936). Campbell's work differs in detail from other prominent attempts to define universal features of heroes, however its grand the...

Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale as a Grammar for Generation

The semi-formal analysis of Russian folk tales carried out by Vladimir Propp has often been used as theoretical background for the automated generation of stories. Its rigour and its exhaustive description of the constituent elements of Russian folk tales, and the enumeration of the patterns they follow, have acted as inspiration for several story generation systems, both sequential and interac...

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale

Integration of Linguistic Markup into Semantic Models of Folk Narratives: The Fairy Tale Use Case

Propp’s influential structural analysis of fairy tales created a powerful schema for representing storylines in terms of character functions, which is straightforward to exploit in computational semantic analysis and procedural generation of stories of this genre. We tackle two resources that draw on the Proppian model – one formalizes it as a semantic markup scheme and the other as an ontology...

Hereditary corneal dystrophy in the Manx cat: a preliminary report.

A progressive, apparently inherited corneal dystrophy is described in an inbred line of Manx cats. Initial changes in the cornea are seen at four months of age and characterized by anterior stromal edema. Progressive worsening of the condition produces severe bullous keratopathy with eventual breakdown of both epithelium and stroma. Light microscopic and ultrastructural studies in the advanced ...