Portuguese narrative fiction is plentiful of food and drink references, which vary in meaning function accordingly to the historical context production. The peripathetic brought culinary knowledge from abroad mainly since 16th century, merging cultural changes with practices their country origin. This was a turning point history fiction, for it made more present concept "other" through consumpt...

Reptile prime ministers and flying Nazi saucers-extreme and sometimes off-wall conclusion are typical ingredients of conspiracy theories. While individual differences are a common research topic concerning conspiracy theories, the role of extreme statements in the process of acquiring and passing on conspiratorial stories has not been regarded in an experimental design so far. We identified six...

[2] In its narratological sense, metalepsis, first identified by Genette, is a paradoxical contamination between the world of the telling and the world of the told: “any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.), or the inverse [...]” ([1972] 1980: 234–35). Described as “taking hold of (telling) ...

During the first two decades of 21st century an increasing amount narratives termed as Arabic dystopian fiction appeared on literary scene, with a greater part authored by Egyptian writers. However, what characterises/marks work dystopia? This paper investigates nature selection works within frame narrative tradition. The article begins introducing features traditional dystopias they will be us...

In contemporary philosophy there are a great many texts on aesthetics and the ontology of narrative discourse, that discuss Meinong’s theses, agreeing or disagreeing. But Meinong never wrote a single book or article on aesthetics or the ontology of art works, nor did he provide a structured system to deal with fictional aesthetic objects. What he wrote on these matters is to be found in texts d...

T his session is concerned with the automated creation of fiction or "literary artefacts" that might take the form of prose, poetry or drama. Special focus is placed upon those approaches that include the generation of narrative structures and therefore use some kind of story model. First attempts in automated story generation date back to the 1970s, with the implementation of Meehan's TALE-SPI...

This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel, Quartet. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic aesthetic. But what do we mean when we so classify or “diagnose” ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research is to explore the capacity of story to connect to a health-related videogame, as well as the qualities that may increase efficacy by making the story compelling. Parents of 3-5-year-old children often report difficulty getting their children to eat vegetables, which are protective against chronic illnesses. Videogames may be vehicles for training parenting...