Narrative Features Research Articles

Willy Wonka and the boy-entrepreneur archetype: the changing faces of entrepreneurial masculinity, 1971–2023

PurposeThis paper uses the cultural figure of Willy Wonka to explore the archetype of the “boy-entrepreneur”, and what the various film manifestations of Wonka (1971–2023) say about changes in entrepreneurial masculinity. We (1) develop an original conceptualisation of boyhood as creatively, socially and gender liminal, (2) analyse the entrepreneurial archetype using literary theories and (3) provide a novel interpretation of Apollonian and Dionysian masculinity to aid future cultural analysis of founder/innovator depictions in children’s media.Design/methodology/approachOur study conducts a three-stage dramaturgical analysis of the major film adaptations of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka (1971, 2005 and 2023). After supplementing the limited literature on boyhood in entrepreneurship with literary and feminist art theory, we identify the significant narrative features which frame the Wonka dramas and produce a framework which tracks thematic changes across the films in terms of the creative, social and gender liminal elements of Wonka’s boy-entrepreneur identity.FindingsOur interpretive analysis reveals a gradual shift in values expressed through Wonka’s boy-entrepreneurialism away from a more hegemonic, Apollonian style of masculinity towards a more Dionysian style embracing emotional expression, intimacy with female characters and kin, and collaborations with nature. Such shifts reflect the growing influence of non-hegemonic entrepreneurial gender expressions, value-driven and relational approaches to new venture creation.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the hugely unexplored area of the “boy-entrepreneur”/“boy-genius”, demonstrating its durability in reality, imagination and popular culture. We provide an in-depth character portrait to provoke further attention to children’s multi-media ways of experiencing early entrepreneurial impressions. We also expand the methodological scope of research on entrepreneurial masculinity beyond real-life founders.

<b>Narrative Features of Planting Design</b><b></b>

The narrative character of planting design is the fun of landscapes, telling stories and morals in a unique way in planning. When the landscape stimulates our multiple senses, it even has a great impact on our behavior, our views, and our psychological perception of the world. The way of landscaping tells stories or conveys ideas from four planting design angles, including the symbolic meanings of plants, dynamic storytelling, philosophical design and contrast with Eden. It reflects the importance of a successful landscape and public values, and enhance the interaction with public emotion. This paper provides a detailed exposition of methods and specific scenarios for creating narrative landscapes through the use of plants, drawing on examples from classical gardens in various countries, including Europe, England, and China. This study aims to organize and summarize the cultural symbols present in planting design, clarify the expressive techniques of narrative landscapes through plant design, and provide theoretical insights for interpreting and understanding classical gardens, as well as practical support for future landscape design endeavors.

“It’s only dormant. It’s not dead.”: the evolution of Cory Thomas’ comic ‘Watch Your Head’

ABSTRACT Cartoonist Cory Thomas is one of many producers of Caribbean descent who have created independent and mainstream comics for the U.S. comics industry. His newspaper comic strip ‘Watch Your Head’ (2006–2014) was nationally syndicated with The Washington Post Writers Group. His portfolio also includes illustrator credits on numerous books and commissioned online comics. In 2014, he relaunched ‘Watch Your Head’ as an independent webcomic. This interview is a compilation of edited excerpts from an interview session the author conducted with Cory Thomas on 27 March 2022. The conversation reviews Cory’s educational background, engineering experiences, his path to becoming a cartoonist, and the development of his comic strip, ‘Watch Your Head’. The evolution behind his visual and narrative character design and the inspirations behind his creative choices are also examined.

ARCH: Large-scale knowledge graph via aggregated narrative codified health records analysis.

Electronic health record (EHR) systems contain a wealth of clinical data stored as both codified data and free-text narrative notes (NLP). The complexity of EHR presents challenges in feature representation, information extraction, and uncertainty quantification. To address these challenges, we proposed an efficient Aggregated naRrative Codified Health (ARCH) records analysis to generate a large-scale knowledge graph (KG) for a comprehensive set of EHR codified and narrative features. Using data from 12.5 million Veterans Affairs patients, ARCH first derives embedding vectors and generates similarities along with associated p-values to measure the strength of relatedness between clinical features with statistical certainty quantification. Next, ARCH performs a sparse embedding regression to remove indirect linkage between features to build a sparse KG. Finally, ARCH was validated on various clinical tasks, including detecting known relationships between entity pairs, predicting drug side effects, disease phenotyping, as well as sub-typing Alzheimer's disease patients. ARCH produces high-quality clinical embeddings and KG for over 60,000 codified and narrative EHR concepts. The KG and embeddings are visualized in the R-shiny powered web-API3. ARCH achieved high accuracy in detecting EHR concept relationships, with AUCs of 0.926 (codified) and 0.861 (NLP) for similar EHR concepts, and 0.810 (codified) and 0.843 (NLP) for related pairs. It detected drug side effects with a 0.723 AUC, which improved to 0.826 after fine-tuning. Using both codified and NLP features, the detection power increased significantly. Compared to other methods, ARCH has superior accuracy and enhances weakly supervised phenotyping algorithms' performance. Notably, it successfully categorized Alzheimer's patients into two subgroups with varying mortality rates. The proposed ARCH algorithm generates large-scale high-quality semantic representations and knowledge graph for both codified and NLP EHR features, useful for a wide range of predictive modeling tasks.

The Role of Narratives in Countering Health Misinformation: A Scoping Review of the Literature

ABSTRACT Given the prevalence of health misinformation, it is essential to develop interventions to correct misinformation and reduce its negative influence. Emerging research has investigated the use of narratives as both prebunking and debunking strategies, but the findings are mixed regarding their effectiveness. This systematic scoping review aimed to examine the role of narratives in countering health misinformation, drawing on evidence from 19 studies. The identified studies investigate a variety of health issues, with most employing a randomized experimental design and collecting data in the United States. The findings suggest that narratives are a promising prebunking strategy to inoculate individuals against health misinformation. However, their effectiveness in debunking health misinformation remains inconsistent. Narrative features such as emotional appeals and audiovisual elements may enhance their impact. Directions for future research are discussed.

Exploring User Experience in Virtual Industrial Heritage Platforms: Impact of Cultural Identity, Functional Clarity, Scene Interactivity, and Narrative Quality

This study aims to investigate the key factors influencing user experience in the design of virtual interactive platforms for the preservation of industrial heritage within the context of digitalization. In the literature review, this paper introduces a theoretical model comprising five latent variables: cultural identity, functional clarity, scenario interactivity, narrative quality, and user experience. To construct and validate the model, the author employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze data from 323 valid questionnaires collected in China. The validation of the SEM model led to conclusions regarding the impact of each latent variable on user experience. The results indicate that cultural identity, functional clarity, scene interactivity, and narrative quality significantly affect user experience and play a critical role in enhancing user experience on virtual platforms. To validate this theoretical framework, the study employs the virtual interactive platform of Hanyang Ironworks as a case study, examining how these factors manifest in practical scenarios and their specific impact on platform design. The findings reveal that a strong sense of cultural identity, clear functional design, interactive scenes, and a well-structured narrative are the core factors that enhance user experience on virtual industrial heritage platforms. This research provides both theoretical support for the digital preservation of industrial heritage and practical insights for the design of virtual platforms. The study improves virtual interactions with industrial heritage and informs future research and applications.

Timing of pre-retrieval warnings matters in reducing memory errors in a repeated testing misinformation study

Individuals are often exposed to information regarding previously witnessed events. The misinformation effect occurs when inaccurate post-event information impairs accuracy on a subsequent test of memory for the original event. The misinformation effect is increased when a test is given prior to exposure to post-event information, a phenomenon termed Retrieval Enhanced Suggestibility (RES). In two experiments, we investigated the value of general warnings prior to retrieval towards reducing RES, in situations where reconsolidation due to test related activation was likely. In both experiments, participants were exposed to an original event, and after a 24-hour retention interval either took a test about that original event or were not tested before being exposed to a narrative that included misleading details about the original event. In Experiment 1, a warning about the quality of the post-event narrative was then given followed by the final test. In Experiment 2, the warning and final test were delayed by 24 h. We found that warnings were effective in Experiment 1 in reducing RES, suggesting that even when initial testing supported learning of PEI, original details remained accessible. However, in Experiment 2, when warnings were delayed, participants were no longer able to effectively use them to reduce RES. These results suggest that warnings are most effective when given in close temporal proximity to misinformation.

Historical Narrative: Constituent Features and Linguistic Properties

While historians extensively research narrative and use a significant number of concepts that linguists traditionally see as their own, the properties of historical narrative have not received sufficient coverage in linguistics yet. This article analyses the similarities and differences in the approach to narrative by historians and linguists, formulates the linguistic criteria of narrativity and discusses the relationship between factuality and fictionality. The constitutive features of historical narrative identified and described in the present study include temporality, spatiality, eventfulness, informativeness, interpretability, ideologization and semioticity. Language is treated as a tool of verbalising historical narrative, structuring its chronology and logic, shaping the perception of events through a system of presuppositions, connotations, and allusions, creating historical ambiance and constructing mythologised designations. The linguistic means used in the construction of historical narrative comprise: 1) the language of the historical source; 2) the narrator's language; 3) historical terminology; 4) historicisms and archaisms; 5) precedent names; 6) obsolete and modern toponyms. The study emphasises the importance of perceiving history as a hypertext – multiple narratives united by a network of intertextual connections. The study is illustrated by examples from narratives about the Silk Road in Chinese, Russian and English. The Silk Road symbolises the crossroads of civilisations, the interaction between East and West, the economic and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe, peaceful cooperation, good neighbourliness, and shared cultural experience.

병자호란을 ‘이야기’하는 두 가지 방식 - 이긍익의 『연려실기술』과 박종화의 『대춘부』(1937)를 중심으로

This study examines the Byeongjahoran (丙子胡亂) from the perspective of historical narrative reconstruction, comparing and analyzing the narrative characteristics and significance found in Yi Geung-ik(李肯翊)'s 『Yeollyeosilgisul(燃藜室記述)』 and Park Jong-hwa(朴鐘和)'s 『Daechunbu(待春賦)』. The research aims to investigate how a single historical event can be reinterpreted and transformed through different temporal contexts and narrative forms. Yeollyeosilgisul attempted to create a complete reconstruction of the Byeongjahoran through the extraction and rearrangement of historical sources, interpreting Choe Myeong-gil's advocacy for peace as an inevitable choice for dynastic preservation. Choe Myeong-gil emerges as a defender of Joseon values alongside Kim Sang-heon, who argued for resistance against the Qing, establishing a narrative structure of crisis and resolution, conflict and reconciliation. Yeollyeosilgisul served not only as a primary source for modern Korean historical research but also as a foundational narrative for historical novels in the 1930s. This narrative was transformed and reappeared in Park Jong-hwa's 1937 work, Daechunbu. While based on anecdotes from Yeollyeosilgisul, Daechunbu evolves into a popular narrative by introducing fictional characters and events to strengthen causality between incidents and incorporating psychological monologues of characters. The emergence of Im Gyeong-eop and Prince Bongrim as new heroic figures is particularly noteworthy, as it metaphorically symbolizes the colonial reality of the era in which Daechunbu was written. The relationship and transformation patterns between Yeollyeosilgisul and Daechunbu are significant as they serve as a reference point for understanding the flow and trends of historical content since the modern era, especially considering that Park Jong-hwa's historical novels later became widely used as source material for historical dramas and other historical content.

뮤지컬 레미제라블의 I Dreamed a Dream과 On My Own 매쉬업을 통한 음악적·서사적 특징 분석

This study aims to analyze the musical and narrative characteristics of the mash-up technique applied to the representative songs I Dreamed a Dream and On My Own from the musical Les Misérables and to explore its artistic value. By examining how the independent narratives and emotional flows of each song are integrated and expanded through the mash-up, the study investigates whether the combined piece offers listeners a complex and multi-layered musical experience. The findings indicate that the melodic peaks and harmonic resolutions of the two songs effectively express emotional buildup and release within the mash-up structure, thereby transforming the distinct narrative flows into a unified storyline. Additionally, the mash-up technique enhances emotional transitions, serving as a critical creative strategy that deepens audience engagement. This study suggests that mash-ups are not merely a combination of songs but a meaningful tool for reinterpreting existing works and expanding their artistic value. It also hopes to encourage future research on the use of mash-up techniques in various musical theater compositions.

The Type Classification and Narrative Characteristics of Gosule Food Sharing Culture in 'Gosule Oral Folktales'

The Type Classification and Narrative Characteristics of Gosule Food Sharing Culture in 'Gosule Oral Folktales'

The aluminum standard: using generative Artificial Intelligence tools to synthesize and annotate non-structured patient data

Background Medical narratives are fundamental to the correct identification of a patient’s health condition. This is not only because it describes the patient’s situation. It also contains relevant information about the patient’s context and health state evolution. Narratives are usually vague and cannot be categorized easily. On the other hand, once the patient’s situation is correctly identified based on a narrative, it is then possible to map the patient’s situation into precise classification schemas and ontologies that are machine-readable. To this end, language models can be trained to read and extract elements from these narratives. However, the main problem is the lack of data for model identification and model training in languages other than English. First, gold standard annotations are usually not available due to the high level of data protection for patient data. Second, gold standard annotations (if available) are difficult to access. Alternative available data, like MIMIC (Sci Data 3:1, 2016) is written in English and for specific patient conditions like intensive care. Thus, when model training is required for other types of patients, like oncology (and not intensive care), this could lead to bias. To facilitate clinical narrative model training, a method for creating high-quality synthetic narratives is needed.MethodWe devised workflows based on generative AI methods to synthesize narratives in the German language to avoid the disclosure of patient’s health data. Since we required highly realistic narratives, we generated prompts, written with high-quality medical terminology, asking for clinical narratives containing both a main and co-disease. The frequency of distribution of both the main and co-disease was extracted from the hospital’s structured data, such that the synthetic narratives reflect the disease distribution among the patient’s cohort. In order to validate the quality of the synthetic narratives, we annotated them to train a Named Entity Recognition (NER) algorithm. According to our assumptions, the validation of this system implies that the synthesized data used for its training are of acceptable quality.ResultWe report precision, recall and F1 score for the NER model while also considering metrics that take into account both exact and partial entity matches. Trained models are cautious, with a precision up to 0.8 for Entity Type match metric and a F1 score of 0.3.ConclusionDespite its inherent limitations, this technology has the potential to allow data interoperability by using encoded diseases across languages and regions without compromising data safety. Additionally, it facilitates the synthesis of unstructured patient data. In this way, the identification and training of models can be accelerated. We believe that this method may be able to generate discharge letters for any combination of main and co-diseases, which will significantly reduce the amount of time spent writing these letters by healthcare professionals.

Effect of similarity between characters and writers on generating characters in narrative

Effect of similarity between characters and writers on generating characters in narrative

The Assumption of St. John the Theologian: Genre and Narrative Features

The paper focuses on the genre and narrative features of Uspenie na Sveti Yoan Bogoslov (The Assumption of St. John the Theologian), which commemorates the feast of the saint on 26 September in the South Slavic calendar collections. It also explores the narrative and structural specifics of the text.

Character Narratives in Indonesian Digital Fiction: A Semi-Digital Stylistics Approach

Digital fiction is a collection of art texts in the form of short stories and novels that combine technology, virtual space, media elements, and provide access to readers or netizens to carry out certain activities in it. Narratology of Characterization is the initial foundation in research in the field of literary studies. Narratology is a field of study that explains narratives and narrative structures in a discourse context. Narratology of characterization talks about the position or scheme of characters in the story. The position of the character talks about the role and impact of the role of the character. The character gives birth to characterization. Characterization gives birth to implications. Implications provides birth to messages and perspectives that will be captured by the reader. Narratology research in digital fiction is research that aims to explain the position, role, and function of the character and characterization itself. This study found that in digital fiction, characters are dominated by women. Female characters in digital fiction hold various roles and impacts on the roles they play. Not only that, this study also found that all works included in the digital fiction category are works that are ready to be owned by many people. Digital fiction does not only belong to the author but also to the reader who acts as a ghost writer who has the right to make decisions or provide suggestions and criticisms of the contents of the story. The author is still recognized as the creator of the story and netizens still take their position as figures who assess the work subjectively and objectively, subjective because there are thoughts, ideas, personal points of view in assessing a fiction, objective in providing assessments, input, suggestions, and criticisms for the maturity or goodness of the story.

Narrative Character of the Vocal Ballad in The Example Of Yuliy Meitus' "Three Were Shot"

The purpose of the research is to determine the specifics of narrative in a vocal work using the genre of the vocal ballad as an example. The research methodology is based on a combination of semantic and hermeneutic analysis and systemic, structural, functional, and comparative methods. The scientific novelty lies in the analysis of a vocal work that is narrative in nature in order to identify narrative manifestations. Conclusions. The article reviews the main narratological works and identifies the elements of the narrative text. The main characteristics of the ballad genre and its correspondence to the narrative are identified. The author analyses the literary and musical basis of the vocal ballad by Y. Meitus (words by V. Korotych), “Three were shot”, for the presence of narrative features on different levels. Attention is focused on the interplay of poetic and compositional interpretations of the main narrative elements of the ballad, as well as on the manifestations of narrativity in purely musical terms. The characteristics of narrativity at the level of the form and structure of the vocal ballad are revealed, in particular the destruction of the vertical organisation of the verse in favour of the linearity of the narrative plot and the asymmetry of the form. The presence of the narrator and the formation of his personality by the author-poet and author-composer are established. The opinion of the narrator and his influence on the presentation of events and their perception by the narrators are indicated. It is emphasised that the combination of literary and musical techniques creates the effect of the narrator’s distance and proximity to the events described. The role of tonalities that support literary characters and also come into conflict in purely musical terms, thus creating their own storyline, is determined. It is emphasised that each piece of music has its own unique way of revealing a narrative. In this respect, the need for further research on this topic in other vocal and instrumental genres is demonstrated.

English Language Style in the Works of Japanese-British Author Kazuo Ishiguro: A Study Using "Klara and the Sun" as an Example

Kazuo Ishiguro, as a British novelist of Japanese descent, possesses a dual cultural background, reflecting the contradictions between ethnicity and internationalization, as well as cross-cultural characteristics in his works. His distinct narrative features and unique English writing techniques have made him stand out in the global literary arena. In today's globalized world, this paper aims to explore how he touches the empathy of other nations and spreads his cultural ideas through his works. Using his representative work "Klara and the Sun" as an example, this paper analyzes its implied meanings and narrative of memories, and discusses the human-machine community and the human fate community, revealing the deep connotations and significance of his works.

On the ‘De-anthropomorphisation’ of the Narrator

Abstract The prevalent belief in narrative studies that a narrator can appear as a character or possess a personality often leads to confusion and misunderstandings. Characters fundamentally exist within the story, including the narrating character who should be seen as a presence similar to the author of the story rather than a ‘character narrator’. Furthermore, the narrator does not possess a personality, as its moral aspects primarily stem from the implied author or the characters. The narrator’s existence relies on its function, serving as a proxy for executing the intentions of the implied author (sometimes transferred as the intentions of the characters), selecting narrative elements, organising them into text, and guiding the recipient’s interpretive process. This perspective likens the narrator to the frame of a narrative, transforming it into a representation separate from the real world. De-anthropomorphising the narrator can have implications for several key narratology issues.

Status Riwayat Perawi Majhul antara Penerimaan dan Penolakan

The term Majhul denotes a classification within the study of hadith narrators, reflecting ambiguity regarding their reliability in transmitting prophetic traditions. This designation is commonly employed by hadith scholars to signify uncertainty about a narrator's character and trustworthiness. As a result, narrators categorized as Majhul are predominantly deemed dha'if (weak) by the majority of scholars, rendering the hadiths they transmit equally dha'if due to the inherent uncertainty surrounding their reliability. Extensive discussions on this classification are found across the corpus of ‘Ulum al-Hadith (The Sciences of Hadith). Nevertheless, is there a consensus among scholars that narrations from Majhul narrators are categorically dha'if? Or do divergent scholarly perspectives exist concerning the acceptability of their narrations? If alternative views are present, what are the arguments underpinning the assertion that such narrations are not dha'if? This study endeavors to critically examine the status of Majhul narrators by analyzing the factors that lead to their classification as weak, the degree of their weakness, and the validity of their narrations through the application of a rigorous content analysis methodology.

Author’s Fiction and Non-Fiction Prose in the Narrative System of the Literary Museum

The article specifi es the concept of narrative in relation to the museum sphere as a space of new media. The article describes the narratives of museum communication that actualize the conceptual meanings of Valentin Rasputin’s prose. We show how an integral museum narrative is formed on the basis of the author’s fi ction and non-fi ction texts with grammatically, structurally and functionally complex narrative. In the structure of the integral museum narrative the attention is focused on the excursion narrative consisting of a set of biographical and a set of “creative” narratives. We propose to distinguish biographical and “creative” narratives by sign-semiotic nature, subjective representation of the narrator, nature of exposition space coverage, authenticity, method of refl ecting reality, type of authorship, main function, and stylistic design. The paper demonstrates how the excursion narrative is strategically and situationally supplemented by offi cial, artistic, folklore, everyday, scientifi c narratives from non-museum communicative environments of the city and region. In addition to the structure of the integral narrative, its specifi c features are systematized and described. We show that the integral narrative in the space of the literary museum 2.0 is characterized by subjectivity, self-value, processuality, multimedia; it has interpretative and value-normative potential. The communicative goals, genres, constructive and rhetorical and stylistic features of corporate narrative and narrative of online and offl ine audiences are described. In accordance with the objectives of the research, the method of comparing the narratives of two institutional environments of a single digital space, – museum and mass-media, is used to examine the similar characteristics of museum and mass-media discourses, and to identify the extralinguistic, text-forming, content, and technological reasons for this similarity. The whole museum narrative is presented as a polyphonic, multi-genre, multi-object communicative product organized on the structural and semiotic principles of media storytelling. The author outlines the prospects for the study of the narrative toolkit of mass media, which actualizes the artistic and social meanings of the author’s text in the interregional real and virtual space of Siberian literary museums.