Unreliable narrator – programmatische Denkfigur in Felicitas Hoppes Roman Johanna (2006)

Samual Willard: An Unreliable Narrator

Toni Morrison’s Paradise: The Unreliable Narrator

Previous critical readings of Toni Morrison’s novels, especially Paradise, largely emphasise the universal themes explored in her novels, namely, feminism, culture, psychology, and of course, her remarkable presentation of African-Americans in racial and cultural conflicts. Yet, there are major areas that remain unexplored in her works. One of the most conspicuous absences is Morrison’s dominan...

Johanna Ivaska: Finding opposing forces in integrins

JCB • VOLUME 208 • NUMBER 6 • 2015 652 Johanna Ivaska will tell you that she never planned to continue studying integrins, the sticky transmembrane receptors that grab onto a cell’s extracellular environment, after her PhD. But somehow the integrins seemed to be stuck on her. As a PhD student at the University of Turku in Finland, Ivaska chose a laboratory investigating collagen-binding integri...

Profile of Johanna Schmitt.

Understanding and predicting the adaptive evolution of complex traits in variable natural environments are central problems in plant evolutionary biology that motivate much of Johanna Schmitt’s research. Her work, which integrates plant evolutionary ecology, physiological ecology, and ecological genomics, has made significant contributions toward understanding the genetic basis of ecologically ...

Storytelling with Adjustable Narrator Styles and Sentiments

Most storytelling systems to date rely on manually coded knowledge, the cost of which usually restricts such systems to operate within a few domains where knowledge has been engineered. Open Story Generation systems are capable of learning knowledge necessary for telling stories in a given domain. In this paper, we describe a technique that generates and communicates stories in language with di...