Herman Melville is one of the greatest authors American literature. His best known book Moby-Dick. In this article I have tried to provide a brief overview narrative strategy used by create such great masterpiece. It focused on Melville’s style which close modernist and post- writings. ahead time he lived. The first phrase Moby-...

One of the approaches to generate narrative consists in modeling narrative in terms of a deep structure, as introduced by narrative theories in the middle of the 20th century. This papers revisits this computational approach, and raises the central issue of dramatic tension: Would it be possible to build a computational model of dramatic tension, where tension could be managed according to the ...

Many senior doctors have had little in the way of formal ethics training, but express considerable interest in extending their education in this area. This paper is the report of an initiative in continuing medical education in which doctors were introduced to narrative ethics. We review the theoretical basis of narrative ethics, and the structure of and response to the two-day workshop.

Visualization of interactive narrative structures remains a difficult problem: while authoring systems have developed robust ways to visually communicate narrative structures, comparatively little work has been done towards visualizing the output of playthroughs, namely story metrics and redundant content paths. This paper explores an interactive visualization that quickly helps authors spot re...

This paper reviews sound design techniques used in professional audio for music and theater and proposes a conceptual approach to the construction of audio based in narrative structure. The sound designer does not attempt to replicate "real" sounds; the task is rather to create the impression of a real sound in a listener's mind. In this attempt to create a sound in the listener's mind, the sou...