the present study sets out to investigate the narrator’s textual position in grass’s the tin drum. although authorial self-dramatization through affinities with one or more characters in the work is undeniable, this study mainly concentrates on the inner interpenetrations of heteroglot utterances as uttered by an unreliable first-person narrator, oskar matzerath, in the light of the bakhtinian ...

A drama manager (DM) monitors an interactive experience, such as a computer game, and intervenes to shape the global experience so that it satisfies the author's expressive goals without decreasing a player's interactive agency. Most research work on drama management has proposed AI architectures and provided abstract evaluations of their effectiveness. A smaller body of work has evaluated the ...

This paper describes an approach for the elicitation and application of authorial goals for interactive narrative. A framework is presented for using author input to elaborate descriptions of planning problems and domains. The authors describe a mixed-initiative graphical user interface that exploits this framework to allow authors to express narrative goals and understand how these goals affec...

This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. is true also depictions mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these their own purposes beyond event at hand. Authorial focus, along with requirements chosen literary genre, reason different scales actors that appear in texts, whether large blurry masses nameless pe...

My research provides an interface for non-technical authors to collaborate with a planning system to create interactive narrative. I describe a domain metatheory to allow for qualitative elaborations of narrative domains. A graphical user interface that exploits this metatheory is used to specify authorial preferences. These preferences are employed to enhance the qualitative reasoning of the p...