"This book discusses issues of narrative-related information and communication technologies, cognitive mechanism and analyses, and theoretical perspectives on narratives and the story generation process. Focusing on emerging research as well as applications in a variety of fields including marketing, philosophy, psychology, art, and literature"--.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• Editorial Advisory Board
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Preface
• Section 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 1: A Computational, Cognitive, and Narratological Approach to Narrative Generation
  • Chapter 2: Toward a Post-Narratology or the Narratology of Narrative Generation
• Section 2: Conceptual Explorations of Narrative Generation
  • Chapter 3: The Possibility of the Generation of Literary Works by Abduction
  • Chapter 4: Consideration of Fundamental Methods and Principles for Human-Computer Co-Creation of Narratives
  • Chapter 5: Kabuki as Multiple Narrative Structures and Narrative Generation
• Section 3: Computational and Cognitive Systems of Narrative Generation
  • Chapter 6: Past, Non-Story Narrative Film, and Nostalgia
  • Chapter 7: An Attempt of the Commercial Film Production Support System Based on the Image Rhetoric of Commercial Film
  • Chapter 8: Can Computers Understand Picture Books and Comics?
• Section 4: Cognitive and Social Analyses of Human Narratives
  • Chapter 9: Taking Perspectives in Digital Storytelling on Business Planning
  • Chapter 10: The Potentiality of First-Person Views
  • Chapter 11: The Employment Status and Support Needs of Persons With Disabilities in Japan
  • Chapter 12: Producing a Mental Representation of a Cup of Sake
  • Chapter 13: Elegant and Efficient Communication by Haiku-Like Concise Sentences
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index