Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory write by Marie-Laure Ryan. This book was released on 1991. Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes the formal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature. By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.
Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology
Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology write by Alice Bell. This book was released on 2019. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world that we belong to and possible worlds created by the imagination, possible worlds theory has made significant contributions to narratology. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology updates the field of possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of contemporary literary narratives. This volume systematically outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the possible worlds approach, provides updated methods for analyzing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of different texts, including contemporary fiction, digital fiction, video games, graphic novels, historical narratives, and dramatic texts. Through the variety of its contributions, including those by three originators of the subject area--Lubomír Doležel, Thomas Pavel, and Marie-Laure Ryan--Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology demonstrates the vitality and versatility of one of the most vibrant strands of contemporary narrative theory.
Narrative Across Media
Narrative Across Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative Across Media write by Marie-Laure Ryan. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Narrative Across Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of interpretation. A contribution to both narrative and media studies, Narrative across Media is the first attempt to bridge the two disciplines.
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative as Virtual Reality 2 write by Marie-Laure Ryan. This book was released on 2015-12. Narrative as Virtual Reality 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this completely revised edition, Ryan reflects on the developments that have taken place over the past fifteen years in terms of both theory and practice and focuses on the increase of narrativity in video games and its corresponding loss in experimental digital literature."--Page [4] of cover.
Narrative as Virtual Reality
Narrative as Virtual Reality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative as Virtual Reality write by Marie-Laure Ryan. This book was released on 2003-10-03. Narrative as Virtual Reality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Ryan considers the fate of traditional narrative patterns in digital culture, she revisits one of the central issues in modern literary theory—the opposition between a presumably passive reading that is taken over by the world a text represents and an active, deconstructive reading that imaginatively participates in the text's creation.
