Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

Ryan, Marie‐Laure

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“…Asimismo, el concepto de mundo MONOGRÁFICO dentro de las narrativas transmediales ha sido el principal objeto de estudio y comparación en tanto elemento central de dichas narrativas, desde las perspectivas de mundo ficcional (Thomas Pavel 1986), mundos posibles (Ryan 1991, Doležel 1998, mundos transmediales (Klastrup & Tosca 2004, mundos imaginarios (Wolf 2012) y mundos narrativos (Ryan & Thon 2015, Ryan 2015; con aportaciones comparativas de otros investigadores de los game studies (Aarseth 2006) y de autores de la industria de las narrativas transmedia (Bernardo 2011;Pratten 2011;Steiff, Niederman & Fry 2013). Dichas perspectivas se han sistematizado con el objetivo de ofrecer un marco teórico adecuado para evaluar la ontología, poética y procesos de los mundos transmediales en la bibliografía relevante aparecida hasta la fecha.…”

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“…Dentro de la corriente teórica que comienza con Thomas Pavel y sus Fictional Worlds (1986), Lubomír Doležel y Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds (1998) y las aportaciones de Marie-Laure Ryan (1991Ryan ( , 2001), su propuesta de mundos imaginarios dota por un lado de un peso ontológico muy importante a estos mundos, al tiempo que tiene en cuenta la especificidad de los medios, y señala el hecho paradójico de que uno de los efectos de la transmedialidad es, efectivamente, el incremento de la autonomía de estos mundos transmediales que, por otra parte, sólo pueden ser experimentados de forma mediada.…”

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Mundos transmediales: revisión conceptual y perspectivas teóricas del arte de crear mundos

Sánchez

2016

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El concepto de transmedia storytelling introducido por Henry Jenkins (2003, 2006) ha sido ampliamente desarrollado académicamente en los últimos años, popularizándose y redefiniéndose con el tiempo. Dentro de la propia definición del transmedia storytelling se observa la centralidad del concepto de mundo, que desde una perspectiva teórica y crítica ha sido menos desarrollado que la relación entre la narrativa y los medios presentes en las narrativas transmediales. El presente trabajo recoge y sistematiza una selección bibliográfica de los principales autores que han definido la naturaleza, límites y transferibilidad de los llamados mundos transmediales, estableciendo conclusiones relativas a la necesidad de observar el citado fenómeno de las narrativas transmediales, sus elementos constituyentes y los procesos en los que éstos se ven envueltos, con la finalidad de elaborar unos criterios previos para su análisis y consideración como pieza fundamental de este fenómeno. The concept of transmedia storytelling introduced by Henry Jenkins (2003, 2006) has been widely developed in the academic field, getting popular and being redefined with time. In transmedia storytelling’s definition we can observe the focus on the concept of world, which from a theoretical and critical perspective did not had the development that the relationship among narrative and media had. This work gathers and analyzes a selection of references from the main authors that have defined the nature, limits and transferability of the so called transmedial worlds, proposing conclusions related to the need to observe the phenomenon of transmedia narratives, its founding elements and the processes related to them, with the aim to elaborate a catalogue of criteria for the analysis and consideration of key element of transmedia storytelling.

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Mundos transmediales: revisión conceptual y perspectivas teóricas del arte de crear mundos

Sánchez

2016

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“…The branch of literary theory that has tried to deal with reference most successfully is what is called possible worlds theory. Borrowing from logic and analytic philosophy the concept of ''possible worlds,'' theorists such as Marie-Laure Ryan, Thomas Pavel, and Lubomir Dolezel argue that literature does indeed refer to a world, however not to our real world, but to possible worlds (Ryan et al 1991;Pavel 1986;Dolezel 1998). This solution is elegant: it allows us to retain the concept of reference, which is after all a crucial dimension of language.…”

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World literature and the creation of literary worlds

Puchner

2011

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Based on the author's work as general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature, the essay develops an approach to world literature centered on world creation. The creation of literary worlds can be understood within the framework of possible worlds theory as developed by Thomas Pavel, Lubomir Dolezel and others. Taking its point of departure from possible worlds theory, the essay then focuses on specific genres that foreground the capacity of literature to create whole worlds, including world creation myths and science fiction. Three terms are used to analyze this body of literature: reference; scale; and model. While the category of reference accounts for the status of the worlds to be found within literary works, scale and model capture the particular challenges world creation literature faces.

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“…While Possible Worlds Theory originates in philosophical logic (e.g. Hintikka 1967;Kripke 1972;Lewis 1973;Plantinga 1974), it can also be used in a narratological context (Ryan 1991) because the world described by a fictional text represents a particular type of possible world: a textual actual world. As a methodological approach, Possible Worlds Theory provides appropriate terminology for labelling different ontological domains and is extremely proficient at analysing complicated ontological configurations.…”

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“…The reader's relationship to the textual actual world in Nightingale's Playground can be explained by utilising Ryan's (2008Ryan's ( , 1991 Possible-Worlds concept of 'recentring', a theory developed to explain readers' relationships to fictional worlds in general. Ryan (2008) suggests that 'through their act of make-believe, readers, spectators, or players transport themselves in imagination from the world they regard as actual toward an alternative possible world -a virtual reality -which they regard as actual for the duration of their involvement in the text, game, or spectacle.…”

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‘I felt like I’d stepped out of a different reality’: Possible Worlds Theory, Metalepsis and Digital Fiction

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World Building : Discourse in the Mind

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Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

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Mundos transmediales: revisión conceptual y perspectivas teóricas del arte de crear mundos

Mundos transmediales: revisión conceptual y perspectivas teóricas del arte de crear mundos

World literature and the creation of literary worlds

‘I felt like I’d stepped out of a different reality’: Possible Worlds Theory, Metalepsis and Digital Fiction

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