Meaningful choice has often been identified as a key component in a player’s engagement with an interactive narrative, but branching stories require tremendous amounts of hand-authored content, in amounts that increase exponentially rather than linearly as more choice points are added. Previous approaches to reducing authorial burden for computer RPGs have relied on creating better tools to man...

â  â  â  â  narration elements in the story of mousa and khezr â  (based on character and time) â  â  sayyed reza solayman zadeh najafi * â  azim tahmasbi ** â  â  abstract â  â  the story consists of elements such as character and time and the story features. characters make story’s structure and there is not story without character . time element is also necessary for the story . each story...

bahman-nāme, a late 5th-century (a.h.) or early 6th-century (a.h.) epic poem, is one of those significant poems that used the shāh-nāme as a model. this story was composed by īrānshāh in four parts. the first part recounts the adventures of bahman, son of esfandīār, who, at the behest of rostam, marries katāyūn, the daughter of the king of kashmir. although generally this poem belongs to the ep...

1. introduction intertextuality is a literature theory which has been based on bakhtine’s dialogism theory. it was firstly stated by juliet kristova. according to this theory each text is produced and read in a dialogue with other texts. intertextual criticism is a way of reading texts which signifies texts to each other rather than the real world. the hypotext, habil (abel) and qabil (cain), w...

“death” as one of the basic subject and a fact is considered by all contemporary and previous poets and scholars. ghaddeh-samman, an arab poet and writer, was influenced by the defeat of arabs from israel in one hand, and because of his presence in lebanon since the civil war in the country was influenced by bad effects of the war in the other hand. thats why the word “death” overruled its imag...

one of the largest and most mysterious events of life is death, which has continued to preoccupy the mind of man. in cotemporary literature, many authors are trying to escape death.  but the approach of eric emmanuel schmitt, contemporary french writer, given the large number of his works with this theme, seems to be specific. in his work, death does not have  a horrible face. through belief in...