We aim to develop an automatic generation of interactive stories. For this aim, we have analyzed Japanese folktales. In this area, there exists famous research conducted by Vladimir Propp. He analyzed more than 100 Russian magic-inspired folktales by segmenting each of them into a series of short segments and classified each segment into one of 31 functions. Here, we tried to analyze about 20 J...

ABSTRAC T ORPHANHEROES AND HEROINES ARE familiar characters in children’s literature, particularly in the fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This type of protagonist has its roots in folktales. An analysis of fifty folktales from different cultures reveals that, while the details of orphan stories vary, there are some universal elements. A comparison of these patterns to a l...

This paper presents an approach to organizing folktales based on a data structure called a plot graph, which captures the narrative flow of events in a folktale. The similarity between two folktales can be computed as the structural similarity between their corresponding plot graphs. This is performed using the well-known Needleman-Wunsch algorithm. To test the efficacy of this approach, experi...

Memory and mystery 2 Abstract We hypothesize that cultural narratives such as myths and folktales are more likely to achieve cultural stability if they correspond to a minimally counterintuitive cognitive template that includes mostly intuitive concepts combined with a minority of counterintuitive ones. Two studies tested this hypothesis, examining whether this template produces a memory advant...

This paper deals with dynamic visualization of folktales on a map. The visualization is performed using a coupling of dynamic simulation with the google earth API. The simulation is based on the DEVS (Discrete EVent system Specification) formalism. We have defined a set of basic models to perform visualization of folktales using a software framework called DEVSimPy. DEVSimPy is a framework dedi...

We hypothesize that cultural narratives such as myths and folktales are more likely to achieve cultural stability if they correspond to a minimally counterintuitive (MCI) cognitive template that includes mostly intuitive concepts combined with a minority of counterintuitive ones. Two studies tested this hypothesis, examining whether this template produces a memory advantage, and whether this me...

PART OF A LARGER DOCTORAL DISSERTATION in progress, this article looks at the folktales chapter through nine editions of arguably the most influential children’s literature textbook of the twentieth century, Children and Books. Variables compared and contrasted include the language, the general reorganizations, the specific chapters on folktales and chapters or sections on storytelling, the ill...

Due to the Romantic movement there was a growing attention for recording oral tradition. Pedagogues advocating an independent literature for children recognized the importance of folktales especially for the mediation of bourgeois virtues and social norms. Influenced by the stilistic model of the Brother Grimm's Household Tales and as a result of the propagation of national literatures, a broad...

the authors of this article aim to compare character types in persian oral folktales and hans christian andersen’s fairytales. for a better clarification of this topic, the authors address issues such as morality, character’s will, and the portrayal of women in these stories. this paper comes to the following conclusions: first, both the content and the characters in hans christian andersen’s t...