Narratology and the Big Story Writers Need - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Narratology is what happens when someone says, kindly and a little relentlessly: Let’s stop guessing. Let’s name the weather.

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Canterbury Tales and the Way to Thread Similar Patchwork Quilts - David Somerfleck, Author

If you want to understand The Canterbury Tales as a writer—not as a student with a quiz tomorrow, but as a builder staring at a cathedral’s ribs—start with

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#CfP for chapters for the edited volume "Writing the Truth through a #Fictional Lens: Comparing Sinophone and Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Products".

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: February 27, 2026

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/writing-the-truth-through-a-fictional-lens-comparing-sinophone-and-anglophone-literatures-and-cultural-products/ #LiteratureCulture @litstudies #narratology

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✍️ The call for papers for the thematic dossier ‘New Challenges of Interactivity in Narrative Creation’ is open. It will be published by Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento, coordinated by Francisco Merino, Jorge Palinhos, and Joshua A. Fisher.

📅 Deadline for proposals: 15 February 2026

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/call-aniki-2026/

#Histodons #CallForArticles #MovingImage #Narrative #TransmediaNarratives #History #ImagemEmMovimento #Narrativas #InteractiveNarratives #Narratology

✨ 📚 New publication: “Implicit Messages of Narratives and Evaluative Text Structures: A Network-Based Approach”

In this study, Benjamin Gittel continues his research on modernity critique and related types of critique in fictional narratives. Using network research methods, the study examines the factors that cause readers to believe that a narrative text has an implicit message.

Read it here: https://doi.org/10.61645/ssol.207

#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #DigitalHumanities #Narratology #TCDH

2 new arrivals on #ChildrensLiterature 📚🧸
Don K. Philpot's 2017 study looks at focalization in 10 middle-grade children's novels, written from 1964-2014, told in third-person style.

#narratology #LiteraryStudies

Final installment of the trilogy! 🧵✨ Introducing "The GOLEM Ontology for Narrative and Fiction " 0/ This new framework bridges computational analysis and literary theory, addressing gaps in modeling fictional worlds, characters, and events. #DigitalHumanities #Narratology

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Mariam Muwanga's 2025 study "Modeling the African Diaspora" contributes to the field of critical race theory, combining it with #narratology & #diasporastudies to highlight 3 new concepts in novels by Black British writers #SamSelvon #BernadineEvaristo #AndreaLevy #ZadieSmith & #DiranAdebayo

#CfP für den Workshop "Erzählte und erzählende Umwelten", der vom 7. bis 9. Mai 2026 an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar stattfinden wird.

🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 7. November 2025

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/erzahlte-und-erzahlende-umwelten-weimar/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies #DigitalLiterature #ecocriticism #Narratology #intermediality #EnvironmentalHumanities

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