Designing interactive narrative for children requires awareness of the cognitive abilities of young readers. In this paper, we propose design principles based on knowledge of children's cognitive psychology research. The principles demonstrate how a children's interactive narrative can allow for creative play and avoid frustration. Furthermore, we present an interaction design strategy aimed to...

The term "reported speech" is a misnomer. Examination of the lines of dialogue represented in storytelling or conversation, and consideration of the powers of human memory, indicate that most of those lines were probably not actually spoken. What is commonly referred to as reported speech or direct quotation in conversation is constructed dialogue, just as surely as is the dialogue created by f...

One of the narrative strategies employed in different ways by men and women writers is the presentation of narrator. The significance of narrator is so much that it differentiates between the realistic and non-realistic fiction and specifically men's and women's writings in realistic fiction. Robyn R Warhol's theory based on Genette's is applied to Adam Bede by George Eliot to focus on woman as...

This article introduces and explores issues regarding the question of what constitute valid forms of development knowledge, focusing in particular on the relationship between fictional writing on development and more formal academic and policyoriented representations of development issues. We challenge certain conventional notions about the nature of knowledge, narrative authority, and represen...

structural studies of literary works, which seek to examine the inner textual elements and to discover their connections, provide the grounds for better understanding the essence of literature and by presenting the devices of creating excellent literature can help us to expand the patterns of processing a literary work. a number of structural critics have dealt with the narrative forms by study...

R. Chudamani is an Indian writer whose works have been less explored in scientific research. This present research article intends to interpret Chudamani’s short fiction “Forgive me if you can” which taken from her collection of stories The Solitary Sprout. literary delineate psychological emotions and human values. In the fiction, can”, she portrays inevitable experiences like death, loss, gri...