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In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryanapplies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds tothe study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds providesa more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world,"while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fictiondirectly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automaticstory generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrativeand to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes theformal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature.By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with modelsinspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigmsand an interdisciplinary perspective.

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

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