Year: 1979
Type: article
Abstract: This paper explores some issues which a humanlike story system ought to encompass, but which are usually not in the main focus of narrative models since Propp. We argue that knowledge about actions and interactions can account not only for how stories are constructed, but also for why some stories are more interesting and enduring than others. We analyze a traditional English folktale in these terms, and show how classes of surface expressions make recoverable the underlying structures and dependencies that schema‐based understanders comprise.
Source: Cognitive Science
Authors: Robert de Beaugrande, Benjamin N. Colby
Institutions: University of Florida, University of California, Irvine
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1998666386