Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

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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.

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Glossary Introduction Part I: The Fictional Game 1. Fictional Recentering 2. Possible Worlds and Accessibility Relations: A Semantic Typology of Fiction 3. Reconstructing 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 Conclusion Notes References Index