This paper argues that narrative elements from the science fiction (SF) literary genre are used in the discourse of Nanoscience and Technology (NST) to bridge the gap between what is technically possible today and its inflated promises for the future. The argument is illustrated through a detailed discussion of two NST texts. The paper concludes by arguing that the use of SF narrative technique...

AI research in interactive narrative often lacks specificity as to the player experience it is trying to enable. In this paper, we consider a set of desirable elements from narrative and interactive experiences, and show by looking at playable experiences from industry and academia that combining them has the potential to be limited or self-defeating. To address these issues, we propose opportu...

This paper presents the design of an architecture for narrative games with story-puzzles like classic graphic adventures. The system is able to create new short stories in each session, combining a basic set of narrative elements in an emergent way but maintaining coherency with the storyline of previous sessions. As a test-bed of this proposal we use a simple detective game inspired on the fam...

nowadays novel has a dominant role in literature owing to its special capability to demonstrate the social dilemmas and stories. the main factor which makes a novel attractive is proportionality and symmetry of dialogue with characters and the story. in the case of narratology of a story, an alerted analyzer illustrates premier features of the story with employing narrative mechanisms and story...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

the concept of diegesis (telling or recounting a story) originally appeared in plato's thesis as opposed to mimesis (showing or enacting a story). plato described diegesis as the third person style of expressing a fiction mediated by an author/narrator, whereas he proposed mimesis as the first person style of presenting a story by means of characters and actions. aristotle then applied mim...

The idea that games may contain story elements is a hotly debated topic between ludologists and narratologists. For those in disciplines rooted in more traditional storytelling, the outcome of the game studies debate is largely irrelevant. Story exists where the author believes it exists, at least from a practitioner’s standpoint. In other words, a writer may tell a story within an interactive ...

We describe the N2 (Narrative Networks) Corpus, a new language resource. The corpus is unique in three important ways. First, every text in the corpus is a story, which is in contrast to other language resources that may contain stories or story-like texts, but are not specifically curated to contain only stories. Second, the unifying theme of the corpus is material relevant to Islamist Extremi...

has been approved by the Examining Committee for the thesis requirement for the Master of Arts degree in Music at the December 2010 graduation. ii To Angela iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my committee members for all of their patience and insight without which I could never have attempted such a project. I would also like to thank Wallace Tomasini of the University of Iowa for introd...

This paper examines lone motherhood through the lens of narrative identity. The data consists of the written life stories of seventeen Finnish lone mothers. The focus is on how lone mothers from two different age cohorts construct their identity around motherhood and lone motherhood. Thus historical context becomes an important element in the analysis.