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  1. The Heuristics of Automatic Story Generation

    The intelligence of a story-generating computer program can be assessed in terms of creativity, aesthetic awareness, and understanding. The following approaches are evaluated with respect to these three criteria: simple transition networks, grammar-driven models, simulations, algorithms based on problem-solving techniques, and algorithms driven by so-called "authorial goals." The most serious deficiency of the discussed programs resides in the domain of aesthetic awareness. In order to improve on this situation, story-generation should not follow a strictly linear, chronological order, but rather proceed from the middle outwards, starting with the episodes that bear the focus of interest. The program should select as top-evel goal the creation of climactic situations, create the preparatory events through backward logic, and take the story to the next highlight, or to an appropriate conclusion through a guided simulation. This strategy is ilustrated in a "reverse-engineering," or generative reading of Little Red Riding Hood that simulates the reasoning of an imaginary computer program.

    (Source: Author's website)

    Scott Rettberg - 19.05.2011 - 17:03

  2. Interactive Fiction as Literature

    Interactive Fiction as Literature

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.09.2011 - 14:34

  3. Hypertext and Creative Writing

    This was the first public presentation of the Storyspace hypertext authoring software, which became extremely important in hypertext fiction in the early 1990s. 

    The abstract reads: "Among its many uses, hypertext can serve as a medium for a new kind of flexible, interactive fiction. Storyspace™ is a hypertext system we have created for authoring and reading such fiction. Interactive fiction in the computer medium is a continuation of the modern “tradition” of experimental literature in print. However, the computer frees both author and reader from restrictions imposed by the printed medium and therefore allows new experiments in literary structure."

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.03.2012 - 13:09

  4. HYPERTEXT '87 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext

    HYPERTEXT '87 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext

    Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 01:35

  5. Relationally Encoded Links and the Rhetoric of Hypertext

    Landow examines the rhetoric of linking in hypertext documents based on his experience with the Context32: A Web of English Literature system and argues for principles of relational logic in linking.

    Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 11:28

  6. The Literature Machine: Essays

    The Literature Machine: Essays

    Scott Rettberg - 10.07.2013 - 13:15

  7. Cybernetics and Ghosts

    Cybernetics and Ghosts

    Scott Rettberg - 10.07.2013 - 13:17

  8. Infopoesia ou Poesia Informacional

    "Infopoesia ou Poesia Informacional" [Infopoetry or Informational Poetry] was published on October 29, 1987, in the Diário de Lisboa, in the supplement “Ler Escrever.”

    This benchmark article helped defining the state-of-the-art of “computational poetry,” by exposing the 1960s creative threads in the works by Nanni Balestrini, Herberto Helder, Margaret Masterman and Marc Adrian, and by additionally introducing new Portuguese and Brazilian authors, such as Pedro Barbosa, Silvestre Pestana, Antero de Alda, Erthos Albino de Souza and João Coelho. Furthermore, it disseminated for a general audience the relevance of computational programming in literary creation, by stressing that, for some authors, “a própria programação [é] o acto de criação poética por excelência, sendo o programa um poema” [the very programming (is) the act of poetic creation par excellence, being the program a poem], which facilitates different outputs.

    [Source: Álvaro Seiça, "A Luminous Beam: Reading the Portuguese Electronic Literature Collection" (2015)]

    Alvaro Seica - 05.03.2015 - 12:12

  9. Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature

    Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature

    Ana Castello - 10.10.2018 - 15:01

  10. Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Today

    Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Today

    Yvanne Michéle Louise Kerignard - 23.09.2019 - 21:44

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