Personal pronouns have been shown to influence cognitive perspective taking during comprehension. Studies using single sentences found that 3rd person pronouns facilitate the construction of a mental model from an observer's perspective, whereas 2nd person pronouns support an actor's perspective. The direction of the effect for 1st person pronouns seems to depend on the situational context. In ...

This empirical study researches a literary reading process. 8th grade pupils participate in close of short story, Magrete Kind (Zwilgmeyer, 1895), which they engage with different types fiction activities (Norwegian: “fiktive lesemåter”). The process takes place professional workshop, an arena for working systematically teaching quality teacher education. purpose this article is to contribute k...

The novel "Solaris" occupies a key place in the creative biography of S. Lem. Starting with this work, writer decisively departs from utopian projects future, which at that time were spread most diverse versions. He also resolutely rejects "adventure" and "technological" variants SF fiction. His attention is focused on classic form minimum necessary technical conventions depicting life future. ...

Theorists from diverse disciplines purport narrative fiction serves to foster empathic development and growth. In two studies, participants’ subjective, behavioral, and perceptual responses were observed after reading a short fictional story. In study 1, participants who were more transported into the story exhibited higher affective empathy and were more likely to engage in prosocial behavior....

This paper describes a corpus of about 3000 English literary texts with about 250 million words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and non-fiction written by more than 130 authors (e.g., Darwin, Dickens, Shakespeare). Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) is used to explore a cleaned subcorpus, the Gutenberg English Poetry Corpus (GEPC) which comp...

Dream narration has a lengthy history in the Western literary tradition, functioning as the earliest iteration of the frame story. Dream narratives can be found in the Bible, and in Greek and Latin classical literature, but perhaps reached a zenith during the Medieval period, when dream visions became a central narratological strategy in theological texts and secular romances alike. Deriving fr...

The Author and the Magi: Magic in the Ancient Novel and its Implications for Readership What argues most strongly for the recognition of the ancient " novel " as part of the novel genre in its proper sense is its familiarity. These texts, picaresque, romantic, concise and designed to thrill, offer no generic convention unfamiliar to us from the modern novels of western Europe—the improbable esc...

We developed a locative fiction application called nan0sphere and deployed it on the UCLA campus. This application presents an interactive narrative to users working in a group as they move around the campus. Based on each user’s current location, previously visited locations, actions taken, and on the similar attributes of other users in the same group, the story will develop in different ways...

narrative has being existed in many different forms through communities in all places and all times. it began with human history, and there has been no nation with any narrative. narrative is just like life. since the man is under the influence of story’s narrative logic, the structure of [1]narration has an extensive range just like the variety of lives of human societies. what makes the narra...