Opening book details…
Can I read Computing Action: A Narratological Approach (Narratologia - Volume 2) on EtoBox?
Computing Action: A Narratological Approach (Narratologia - Volume 2) by Jan Christoph Meister is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Computing Action: A Narratological Approach (Narratologia - Volume 2) about?
"Computing Action takes a new approach to the phenomenon of narrated action in literary texts. It begins with a survey of philosophical approaches to the concept of action, ranging from analytical to transcendental and finally constructivist definitions. This leads to the formulation of a new model of action, in which the core definitions developed in traditional structuralist narratology and Greimassian semiotics are reconceptualised in the light of constructivist theories. In the second part of the study, the combinatory model of action proposed is put into practice in the context of a computer-aided investigation of the action constructs logically implied by narrative texts. Two specialised literary computing tools were developed for the purposes of this investigation of textual data: EVENTPARSER, an interactive tool for parsing events in literary texts, and EPITEST, a tool for subjecting the mark-up files thus produced to a combinatory analysis of the episode and action constructs they contain. The third part of the book presents a case study of Goethe's Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten. Here, the practical application of theory and methodology eventually leads to a new
Who reads Computing Action: A Narratological Approach (Narratologia - Volume 2)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jan Christoph Meister
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110201796
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Science, Computer Science
