Cet article ambitionne à relever les procédés métafictionnels qui impliquent une narration introvertie dans le roman Kétala de l’écrivaine africaine Fatou Diome. Il s’attache aussi dépister leurs renvois en essayant, toutefois, relier la performance textuelle l’auteure son expérience personnelle, pour voir l’investissement des jeux réflexifs que Diome relie un véritable travail narratif, qu’ell...

Dans un paysage muséographique qui fait la part belle aux dispositifs immersifs, l’équipe d’Universcience a produit une exposition mise sur l’immersion via narration. L’exposition Renaissances exploite habilement l’aptitude du cerveau humain à tirer parti des émotions suscitées par les récits, non seulement pour mieux comprendre bouleversements monde, mais aussi engager réflexion solutions pote...

This article analyses the use of film style in Rashomon (1950) to determine if the different accounts of the rape and murder provided by the bandit, the wife, the husband, and the woodcutter are formally distinct by comparing shot length data and using multiple correspondence analysis to look for relationships between shot scale, camera movement, camera angle, and the use of point-of-view shots...

Autonomous mobile robots navigate in our spaces by planning and executing routes to destinations. When a mobile robot appears at a location, there is no clear way to understand what navigational path the robot planned and experienced just by looking at it. In this work, we address the generation of narrations of autonomous mobile robot navigation experiences. We contribute the concept of verbal...

In the past two decades computers have begun to be used extensively as media. The two most influential types of media usage is the internet and the WWW, corresponding to telephone, letters, newspapers and television, and the computer game genre, corresponding to aesthetic products such as novels and movies. The unique characteristic of the computer medium is its interactivity, i.e. the fact tha...

In engaging with acts of self-narration that cross species lines, creators of animal autobiographies also broach questions about genre, truth status, and the structure as well as the politics of narrative representation. To address these questions, the present article draws not just on scholarship on (animal) autobiography but also on ideas from the fields of linguistic semantics, politeness th...