In her article, "Bearing Witness through Fiction," Carolina Rocha explores the ways in which three Argentine writers grappled with their roles as public intellectuals and witnesses to acts of terror, undeniable violence, and human rights abuses during the most recent military dictatorship. By examining three narrative texts written from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s Aquí pasan cosas raras (St...

Throughout Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield’s long career in the first half of the twentieth century, he produced both fiction and non-fiction writings on a wide variety of subjects, but there was one topic that consistently reappeared in novels, short stories, essays, and non-fiction works: the blending of people and nature in the farm landscape. This paper will examine the landsc...

This paper uses a narrative literary study to discuss how the science fiction prototyping method has been applied so far in different disciplines, including technology and engineering research (specifically Intelligent Environment research), foresight, futuresand business studies. Then the paper presents very similar practices in human-computer interaction, entitled as e.g. critical design, spe...

Understanding the role of agency is crucial for the creation of interactive fiction. This paper considers some dramatic and literary theories that explicitly or implicitly contain a notion of agency, and examines how these varying notions inform the theory and practice of interactive narrative and drama.

1. EXTENDED ABSTARCT From Anthony Niesz and Norman Holland’s early article “Interactive Fiction” [22], the ‘adventure game’ has persisted in academic research as a signifier for a specific type of videogames. The primary goal of the present dissertation is to distinguish these classic adventure games as an individual narrative form. This entails arguing for their ontologically and aesthetically...

Interactive fiction can be understood and improved using concepts from narratology. Particularly useful is the idea that the discourse, or expression plane, can be considered separately from the underlying story, or content plane. While this sort of correspondence suggests many ways to improve IF and to achieve narrative variation, IF systems have yet to incorporate this distinction. An archite...

Like various other African-American female writers’ fictional works, Paule Marshall’s creative art is anchored in her triple roots (American, African and Barbadian). She thematizes countless sociocultural phenomena narrowly related to ancestral background. Substantively, novel titled Praisesong for the Widow embodies some analeptic narrative devices, which revitalize community’s painful cultura...

Interactive storytelling is an interesting cross-disciplinary area that has importance in research as well as entertainment. In this paper we explore a new area of interactive storytelling that blurs the line between traditional interactive fiction and collaborative writing. We present a system where the user and computer take turns in writing sentences of a fictional narrative. Sentences contr...