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100 1 $aRyan, Marie-Laure,$d1946-
245 10 $aPossible worlds, artificial intelligence, and narrative theory /$cMarie-Laure Ryan.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$c©1991.
300 $aviii, 291 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index.
505 0 $aPart I: The fictional game -- 1. Fictional recentering -- 2. Possible worlds and accessibility relations: a semantic typology of fiction -- 3. Reconstructuing the textual universe: the principle of minimal departure -- 4. Voices and worlds -- 5. The fiction automaton -- Part II: The plotting of the plot -- 6. The modal structure of narrative universes -- 7. The dynamics of plot: goals, actions, plans, and private narratives -- 8. Virtuality and tellability -- 9. Stacks, frames, and boundaries, or narrative as computer language -- 10. The formal representation of plot -- 11. The heuristics of automatic story generation.
520 $aIn 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 cognitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and 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. The first part of the book seeks a more sophisticated application of the theory of possible worlds to the definition of fictionality. While fiction is a mode of travel into textual space, narrative is a journey within the confines of this space. The second part introduces the idea of a semantic domain consisting of a plurality of alternate possible worlds. This notion is developed into a theory of narrative conflict, which leads to an account of the forward movement of plot. By combining the philosophical back ground of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.
590 $bArchive
650 0 $aFiction$xTechnique.
650 0 $aPossibility in literature.
650 0 $aArtificial intelligence.
650 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)
650 0 $aSemiotics and literature.
650 6 $aRoman$xTechnique.
650 6 $aIntelligence artificielle.
650 6 $aNarration.
650 6 $aPossibilité dans la littérature.
650 6 $aSémiotique et littérature.
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650 17 $aKunstmatige intelligentie.$2gtt
650 17 $aFictie.$2gtt
650 17 $aVertelkunst.$2gtt
650 7 $aNarrativa.$2larpcal
650 7 $aFicção (gênero) (técnicas)$2larpcal
650 7 $aInteligência artificial.$2larpcal
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653 0 $aLiterature and semiotics
653 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)
653 0 $aPossibility in literature
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