Computers have been doing literary work for a while now -- helping nab plagiarists, for instance -- and there is even fiction-writing software for people to use, in one case complete "with 2,363 narrative situations". Professor Bringsjord meanwhile is working on a logical framework for the problem of evil, hoping a computer can write fiction on that theme next.
Why, we must ask, do viewers feel "anticipation" in response to narrative situations where they know the characters will survive unharmed?
Crane also differed from his peers and poets of later generations in that his work contains allegory, dialectic and narrative situations.
Kate was right; what I was after was a different kind of nonfiction, one that made room for gaps and silences, that did not impose narrative on non-narrative situations, one that called for, even required, participatory meaning-making.
Similarly, when Theotiste, one of Mari's children, crops up once again in the narrative, his situation is handily summarised: "Despite his 59 years Theotiste had become a warrior.
Gornick is also a teacher, having taught and worked in writing programs at Harvard and the University of Iowa, as well as the author of an invaluable book on personal narrative, The Situation and the Story.
Each lesson includes dialogue, vocabulary, grammar practice and development, task-based activities, narratives and situation dialogues.
The larger story circling him, a familiar narrative in situations involving college players with "character issues," was that he had made mistakes and was the fortunate recipient of forgiveness from his coach, school, and now the teams angling to draft him.
These things tend to be factors that are key to our survival, or which comprise a narrative linking situations and stimuli.
