We introduce a novel method for the formation of fictional concepts based on the non-existence conjectures made by the HR automated theory formation system. We further introduce the notion of the typicality of an example with respect to a concept into HR, which leads to methods for ordering fictional concepts with respect to novelty, vagueness and stimulation. To test whether these measures are...

Several novels George Sand wrote during the 1840s – when her political view was progressively becoming more radical are centred on characters promoting a utopian socialist project without actually belonging to fiction. This article intends explore semantic scope and fictional use of some recurring narrational themes such as “park”, “dream” “convivial table”. These work real literary topoi conde...

«The good comic novel». La narrativa comica di Henry Fielding e l’importanza dell’esempio cervantino analyses the influence of Don Quixote on Fielding’s fiction, starting with a survey reception Spanish novel in England. Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones are analyzed compared novel, from which overtly borrowed some characters, episodes, Cervantes’ parodic strategies. Cervantes’s narrative proceeded ...

When gender is brought into concerns about older people, the emphasis often lies on stereotypes connected to women, and few comparative studies have been conducted pertaining representation of intersection between age in fiction. This article argues that not only children’s literature, traditionally considered be a carrier ideology, plays large part target readership’s socialization, but so do ...

Inherent in all forms of interactive storytelling is the problem of reconciling freedom of the user with requirements for pre-authored plot. In non-digital RolePlaying Games (RPGs), Game Masters (GMs) constantly encounter and solve this problem, facilitating collaborative, interactive storytelling in real-time. In this study, the various theories of GM operations are combined with experiences f...