This is a book that integrates what is known from a wide variety of disciplines about the nature of storytelling and how it influences and transforms people''s lives. Drawing on material from the humanities, sociology, anthropology, neurophysiology, media and communication studi…
The field of narrative (or story) understanding and generation is one of the oldest in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is hardly surprising, since storytelling is such a fundamental and familiar intellectual and social activity. In recen…
The field of narrative (or story) understanding and generation is one of the oldest in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is hardly surprising, since storytelling is such a fundamental and familiar intellectual and social activity. In recen…
Narratology has been flourishing in recent years thanks to investigations into a broad spectrum of narratives, at the same time diversifying its theoretical and disciplinary scope as it has sought to specify the status of narrative within both society and scientific research. Th…
Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species;…
Focusing specifically on the Bildungsroman and international human rights law, Slaughter analyzes the "legibility" of human rights, the literary, political, and juridical effect of transcribing into international law conventions the ancient Greeks felt were so pervasive they cou…
Bibelepisches Erzählen steht in einem polaren Spannungsfeld zwischen heiligem Prätext und poetisch-ästhetischem Anspruch. Die umstrittene Hybridität bibelepischer Texte wird in diesem Sammelband gezielt zum Anlass für eine Revision der bisher weitestgehend vernachlässigten Gattu…