Recent years have seen growing interest in narrative-centered learning environments. Leveraging the inherent structure of narrative, narrativecentered learning environments offer significant potential for inquiry-based learning in which students actively participate in engaging story-based problem-solving. A key challenge posed by narrative-centered learning is orchestrating all of the events i...

In this paper, we investigate the distribution of narrative schemas (Chambers and Jurafsky, 2009) throughout different document categories and how the structure of narrative schemas is conditioned by document category, the converse of the relationship explored in Simonson and Davis (2015). We evaluate cross-category narrative differences by assessing the predictability of verbs in each category...

Despite showing an overtly simple structure, the semantic process in classic literary-narrative discourse conforms to complicated semiotic systems. As a result, semio-semantics is deemed as one of the most scientific, reliable tools since it helps intradiscursive semio-textual propositions be phenomenologically, and even epistemologically, analyzed. Consequently, the narrative discourse in “The...

Drama in games is created by the interplay of the narrative structure of story and the ludic structure of challenges. In this paper, we combine Csikszentmihalyi’s model of engagement and flow with Freytag’s pyramid, a model of narrative structure. Using this combination, we explore the dramatic structure of Halo: Combat Evolved, comparing ludic and narrative structures at each stage of the game...

In the post-modern literary tradition, an absence of universal truth replaces prior notions of one absolute truth, in terms of history as well as such notions as identity and society. Just as postmodernism dismantles the concept of absolute truth, Linda Hutcheon’s concept of the “narcissistic narrative” exemplifies the postmodern undermining of prior traditions: “The origins of the self-reflect...

this study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of joseph conrad’s lord jim. it is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. in other words, it investigates the connection between the narrative strategy and a possible tone of imperialism in conrad’s novel. for the introduction, a brief review of conrad’s manner of writing and his peculiar ambiguity is p...

Evaluation is one of the major open problems in computational narrative. In this paper, we present an empirical study of SAM, an analogy-based story generation (ASG) algorithm, that was created as part of our Riu interactive narrative system. Specifically, our study focuses on SAM’s capability to retrieve and generate short non-interactive stories. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods...

There once was a group of researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo called the Discourse and Narrative Research Group. Contrary to what the prototypical story opening to this review suggests, this group still exists, proof of which is their publishing a book of more than 500 pages (!) on deixis in narrative, studied from the perspective of cognitive science. The book is a colle...

narration is a cognitive tool to understand the experience flow and the theses of analysis of stream of consciousness is considered as one of the most recent and popular methods of analyses of literary works. in the stream of consciousness method, for a detailed and momentum description, the content of thought has a central function and appears in the form of narrative tips and techniques like ...