Abstract Many people assume that fictional entities are encapsulated in the world of fiction. I show this cannot be right. Some works fiction tell us about pieces poetry, music, or theatre written by characters. Such creations creations, as call them. Their authors do not exist. But does take away we can perform, recite, otherwise generate actual instances such works. This means bring individua...

This paper attempts to examine the allegorical narrative strategies and politics of identity—race, gender, using postcolonial racial frameworks. The novel, Blackass written by a Nigerian writer is 21st century fierce comic satirical adaptation Metamorphosis, novella Franz Kafka. intricacies culture within society ethnicity in nation such as patriarchy are explored through language, characters, ...

Japanese media (including anime) offers representations of female characters that, in their cute girlishness, differ from mainstream femininity British media. In the UK, anime conventions are becoming increasingly popular, which brought to life via cosplay (“costume role-play”). This study observes maid cafés as a feminine-presenting phenomenon where participants perform tropes girl anime, whil...

New technologies like voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa, and the Google Assistant give impression that lines between humans machines are blurring gradually take up social roles once occupied by humans. To counter anxiety, this essay argues these becoming more characters, adapting to templates we initially constructed for fictional beings whose space occupy instead. It provides a textual read...

Within the WHIM project, we study fictional ideation: processes for automatically inventing, assessing and presenting fictional ideas. Here we examine the foundational notion of the plausibility of fictional ideas, by performing an empirical study to surface the factors that affect judgements of plausibility. Our long term aim is to formalise a computational method which captures some intuitive...