This article is devoted to the analysis of documentary fiction based on material story “The Monk Mokha” by a contemporary American writer Dave Eggers. The purpose study identify methods implementing and synthesizing artistic codes in this work, as well determine main functions such synthesis conceptual thematic structure story. factual fictional narratives’ components under consideration has sh...

This article explores two theatre events that are considered here as examples of diegetic theatre. The two events, Iris Brunette (2009) by Melanie Wilson and Whisper (2008) by Proto-type Theater have been selected as they both use narration as a strategy to create an „immersive‟ theatre experience, specifically second person narrative. They are positioned here as examples of diegetic as opposed...

Understanding how a fictional relationship between two characters changes over time (e.g., from best friends to sworn enemies) is a key challenge in digital humanities scholarship. We present a novel unsupervised neural network for this task that incorporates dictionary learning to generate interpretable, accurate relationship trajectories. While previous work on characterizing literary relatio...

A case study of two fictional characters in two television series investigates American Southern prosody and introduces prosodic analysis into studies of language and media. Using media to investigate prosody is new to both the fields of prosody and media studies. Media representations are built off of assumed shared knowledge between the producer and the viewer (Bubel & Spitz 2006). Thus, the ...

Abstract The Daughter Zion allegory has previously been interpreted as a failed for mystical union, both because it relies on personification and some versions do not actually portray intimate union between the soul God. Focusing Middle Dutch incunable Vander dochtere van syon een deuoet exercitie ( A Devout Exercise of ), printed by Gheraert Leeu in 1492, I will offer different interpretation ...

Few investigations have analyzed the neuroanatomical substrates of empathic capacities in healthy subjects, and most them neglected potential involvement cerebellar areas. The main aim present study was to investigate associations between bilateral structural measures levels cognitive affective trait empathy.

The article presents the results of a semiotic analysis fictional worlds in transmedia franchises. Fictional number popular fantasy narratives as well stories about superheroes were chosen subject matter. In line with goal stated introduction, this study focuses on how visual and narrative conventions encourage circulation certain connotative meanings between various works franchise, maintainin...

Theory of Mind (ToM) has been proposed to explain social interactions, with real people but also with fictional characters, by interpreting their mind as well as our own. "Perspective embedding" exploits ToM by placing events in characters' minds (e.g., "he remembered she was home"). Three levels of embedment, common in literature, may be a "sweet spot" that provides enough information about a ...

Placing a calendar custom in fictional text opens wealth of possibilities to the writer: enabling new plots or changes trajectories; signposting critical information about place and pace, time timing; conveying communicating complex characters. In Reservoir 13, novel by Jon McGregor, well dressing appears not as superfluous detail, but an intentional device control manipulate text—and reader’s ...

In (Kosterec 2021), Kosterec attempts to provide ``model-theoretic proofs'' of certain theses involving the normal modal operators $\Diamond$ and $\square$ truth-in-fiction (`a la Lewis) operator $F$ which he then goes on show have counterexamples in Kripke models. He concludes from this that embedding logic under is unsound. We instead it are themselves unsound, illicit substitution, a subtle ...