Previous critical readings of Toni Morrison’s novels, especially Paradise, largely emphasise the universal themes explored in her novels, namely, feminism, culture, psychology, and of course, her remarkable presentation of African-Americans in racial and cultural conflicts. Yet, there are major areas that remain unexplored in her works. One of the most conspicuous absences is Morrison’s dominan...

This case study of “Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall,” a prize-winning interactive 3D installation on the Berlin Wall, describes an approach using artistic concepts of abstraction and interactive narratology to simplify production and focus on subtle but powerful user interactions with the virtual world. Interactivity is predetermined and invariable, but after two years of exhibitions in...

Narrative is emerging as a notion that may enable overcoming the limitations of the discovery functionality (only ranked lists of objects) offered by information systems to their users. We present preliminary results on modelling narratives by means of formal ontology, by introducing a conceptualization of narratives and a mathematical expression of it. Our conceptualization tries to capture fu...

The aim. Through the context of formation principles cognitive narratology, article makes an attempt at a (new) (re)reading separate works by Vasyl Stefanyk as leading representative literary canon, classic, being center latest paradigmatics humanitarian sense creation. Such angle view on writer’s novella heritage is completely actualized, it based tasks narratology. 
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Conrad's shorter works of fiction are mostly ignored in the formalistic analysis his critics. Therefore, order to fill gap literature associated with narrative structure works, authors this article consider detail ideas Genette's narratology for story "Youth, Narration". Narratology, method used article, is a science that originated Russian formalists and engaged systematic study narratives. Th...

western imperialism always depicted a biased image of the colonized nations . therefore , portraying th e reality of africa to restore the lost dignity of the natives is one of the aims of postcolonial literature . achebe’s things fall apart is an attempt in this regard . employing postcolonial narratology , the present study examines the relation of the novel ’ s point of view and the concept ...

The following paper is part of a larger analytical study of various contexts of computer games. Here, I elaborate on the method on which I base my study of the semiotic process constituted by playing a computer game. This method is derived from a critique of earlier approaches to the fi eld from the perspective of literary and media studies. While most of these approaches employ a twolevel mode...

Conflict is an essential element of interesting stories, but little research in computer narrative has addressed it directly. We present a model of narrative conflict inspired by narratology research and based on Partial Order Causal Link (POCL) planning. This model informs an algorithm called CPOCL which extends previous research in story generation. Rather than eliminate all threatened causal...