brechtian narrative drama as opposed to aristotelian drama initiated an enormous transformation in german dramatic literature. the major distinctive feature between aristotelian and non-aristotelian drama lies in the certain view and effect each one generates on the audience. according to brecht, aristotelian drama based on pity, fear, empathy, and catharsis results in passivity, lethargy, and ...

Dear Editor,After reading Melissa Leilani Larson's review of Levi Peterson's short story collection, Losing a Bit Eden (“The Promise and Limitations Working-Class Male Protagonists,” Dialogue, Summer 2022), I would like to offer different perspective. had an easier time the stories than she did; saw misogyny as satirized.Peterson's main characters—mostly male, mostly rural Western, all ambivale...

Interactive Narrative is an approach to interactive entertainment that enables the player to make decisions that directly affect the direction and/or outcome of the narrative experience being delivered by the computer system. One common interactive narrative technique is to use a drama manager to achieve a specific narrative experience. To achieve character believability, autonomous character a...

A growing research community is working towards employing drama management components in interactive story-based games. These components gently guide the story towards a narrative arc that improves the player’s experience. However, the success of drama management approaches has not been evaluated using human players in a real game implementation. In this paper, we evaluate our drama management ...

The DRAMA library, developed within the European Commission funded (ESPRIT) project DRAMA, supports dynamic load-balancing for parallel (message-passing) mesh-based applications. The target applications are those with dynamic and solution-adaptive features. The focus within the DRAMA project was on ®nite element simulation codes for structural mechanics. An introduction to the DRAMA library wil...

drama has an ancient history in india. the sanskrit dramatic literature developed in an organized traditional infrastructure and continued during centuries. the main origins of drama in india are the dialogue-like vedic chants, vedic rituals, and epic recitation. related arts such as dance and music were important in appearance and development of drama in india. moreover, greek dramas may have ...

The study focuses on how the South Korean drama/mystery film Burning (2018) intertextually draws from William Faulkner’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and Haruki Murakami’s related sociohistorical contexts. does quite impressionistically freely draw these two stories as well adding new features, while simultaneously removing much of core work some counterpart. By means intertextual borrowing re-co...

This paper focuses on how collaborative fanfiction has taken new practices to accommodate fans as they gather spaces for online communication well desire a deeper sense of community. Collaborative subcultures involve large groups who work together create expansive world-building their fanfictions, or even fandoms from scratch. In order the vast amounts ideas and stories that enter communities, ...

Computer-based highly interactive drama involves different authoring approaches, compared to linear media. Underlying design principles needs to be understood in order to guide the authoring process, to teach authors and to design better systems. This paper identifies a fundamental design principle termed Structural Writing that underlies some of the most generative approaches in interactive dr...

This paper introduces the novel concept of location-based Mobile Urban Dramas. In a Mobile Urban Drama the user become the main character in a play where actors’ voices appear in the mobile phone headset linked to the physical setting in the city as the stage for the drama. The paper describes the dramaturgical concept and introduces a software framework supporting drama writers in developing s...