Annotating and quantifying narrative time disruptions in modernist and hypertext fiction

Edward Kearns


Abstract
This paper outlines work in progress on a new method of annotating and quantitatively discussing narrative techniques related to time in fiction. Specifically those techniques are analepsis, prolepsis, narrative level changes, and stream-of-consciousness and free-indirect-discourse narration. By counting the frequency and extent of the usage of these techniques, the narrative characteristics of different works from different time periods and genres can be compared. This project uses modernist fiction and hypertext fiction as its case studies.
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2020.nuse-1.9
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Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
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Claire Bonial, Tommaso Caselli, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Elizabeth Clark, Ruihong Huang, Mohit Iyyer, Alejandro Jaimes, Heng Ji, Lara J. Martin, Ben Miller, Teruko Mitamura, Nanyun Peng, Joel Tetreault
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NUSE | WNU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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72–77
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.nuse-1.9
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.nuse-1.9
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Edward Kearns. 2020. Annotating and quantifying narrative time disruptions in modernist and hypertext fiction. In Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events, pages 72–77, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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