In The Man Eater of Malgudi, R.K. Narayan makes use the mythical technique, goes back to ancient myths and legends, juxtaposes them with facts modern life this way brings out similarities contrasts between past present. stated that “With impact literature we began look at gods, demons, sages kings our mythology epics not as some remote concoctions but types symbols, possessing psychological val...

This article argues that coherence in medieval narratives was perceived differently than it is modern literature, offering an analysis of principles Digenes Akrites which seem to have been more relevant for its original audiences. Drawing on contemporary narratology and recent research comparable western works, the author does not search one sole superordinate principle, but rather so-called st...

In this paper we define Performatology as a data driven, machine learning, and performance theory based approach to interactive drama through the procedural acting of Performative Embodied Agents (PEAs). PEAs are designed to serve as acting tools for live embodied performers to extend their craft into computational media, and to make agents better actors for the enhancement of cinematic games. ...

Classification and abstraction of narrative content is a problem that spans several domains and disciplines ranging from Film Studies and Narratology to Adaptive Hypermedia and Computational Preference Modeling. Applications for automatic recognition and classification of narrative content range from commercial recommendation systems to interactive digital storytelling (IDS) systems. The notion...

Stories are the most natural ways for people to deal with information about the changing world. They provide an efficient schematic structure to order and relate events according to some explanation. We describe (1) a formal model for representing storylines to handle streams of news and (2) a first implementation of a system that automatically extracts the ingredients of a storyline from news ...

Stories are sequential in nature but they are used to package human experience that involves many things happening at the same time, to several people or in several locations. The mechanics of this packaging process constitute an instance of content planning that has not ben addressed in sufficient detail in existing NLG work. The present paper reviews a number of traditional stories in the lig...

According to the French Structuralist Gerard Genette, the term “point of view” is not an all-comprehensive one for the discussion of narration because, in his view, there is often a difference between the person who tells about an event and the person who sees it. He has, thus, proposed the term “focalization” to make a distinction between the two components of narration. Later critics also pro...