Ever since the 1970s, if not before, second-person narration has been used as an alternative storytelling format in auto/biography to expand narrative possibilities of engaging with one’s own or someone else’s life. The pronoun can support author’s project self-exploration while also offering a means for self-distancing. When story is addressed that person, this raises questions concerning epis...

This paper presents a correlation between second-person narration and the more-than-hu­man perspectivity in animal narratives. The analysis focuses on representations of “you” nar­ration Andrzej Zaniewski’s novel Rat, published for first time 1995. “Rat-centric” fiction, as Marco Caracciolo describes it, talks about various experiences title animal. Although dominant diegetic form is first-pers...

Our approach to the study of learning of mathematical problem-solving extends the notion of narrative learning environments to include the dynamics of collaborative dialogs and related emergent narratives. This perspective favours the conception of the dialogical aspects of interaction as shared achievements of coparticipants and as central meaning-making procedures, based on our qualitative an...

The present study is an attempt to investigate the nature of stylistic choices that markedly appear in the literary discourse of Henry James in order to exemplify the desired aims of the author embedded within these choices along with the impressions these stylistic choices create on the mind of the reader in a comprehensive framework of Psychostylistics. The surfacing of interest to enquire Ja...

Africana philosophy is in the main a of present. Many will demur and with good reason. In first place, worrying about definition animating energies philosophers, philosophers have looked to past furnish answers former, future motivate its orientation latter. For Lucius Outlaw, for example, writing Stanford Encyclopedia Philosophy, “Africana third-order, metaphilosophical, umbrella-concept used ...

Our research aims to develop a more transparent interface for virtual reality environments, an interface designed to read subconscious input from the user as well as player choices. Such an interface offers new possibilities for interactive fiction by enabling fictional “interior” experiences, something previously not thought possible with virtual reality. This paper is a report on a human subj...