An anticipatory system for guiding plot development in interactive narratives is described. The executable model is a finite automaton that provides the implemented system with a lookahead. The identification of undesirable future states in the model is used to guide the player, in a transparent manner. In this way, too radical twists of the plot that lead to behaviors of the autonomous fellow ...

While originally referring to the use of material objects convey abstract ideas, "object lesson" took on a second meaning at turn twentieth century. This particular connotation—denoting person and leader as moral exemplar—reveals fault lines between thinking W. E. B. Du Bois G. Stanley Hall young people. Through his own adoption German ideals sturm und drang bildungsroman, well process "aftersh...

studying persian heroic epic verses affected by narrative tradition and shahname is one of the areas that can be analyzed from  different perspectives. samname which is considered as the last national epic in persian literature and apparently is written in late 7th century and early 8th century – if we accept to be written by khajooye kermani- is among these works which is similar to shahname f...

ever since alexander emerged in the history of iran, his being greek or iranian has been a matter of dispute. the subject has later entered the discussions over alexander’s identity as ruler, governor, explorer, adventurer, etc. even these days disputes over his existence or his territory exist. a purely historical study on the subject should be based on documents. yet since a great part of wri...

abd al-wahhab al-bayyati(1926-1999) is one of those poets whose poems make frequent use of myths. drawing on the ancient myths, and making modifications to them, he tries, while enriching his literary work, to express his views more cogently he does not simply retell the traditional myths, rather, he present new and richer interpretations of these myths and using defamiliarization, conveys his ...

An integrative model of narrative identity builds on a dual memory system that draws on episodic memory and a long-term self to generate autobiographical memories. Autobiographical memories related to critical goals in a lifetime period lead to life-story memories, which in turn become self-defining memories when linked to an individual's enduring concerns. Self-defining memories that share rep...

Narrative is the primary medium through which experience is represented, remembered and shared with others. It has the tendency to unify experience in an abstract linear form. The degree to which this is done is designated narrative form. Mori uses a multidimensional single case analysis to explore how the form of a narrative differs between an experience of real contact with the environment an...