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COMPUTING ACTION - JAN CHRISTOPH MEISTER GEBUNDEN

Computing Action takes a new approach to the phenomenon of narrated action in literary texts.
It begins with a survey of philosophical approaches to the concept of action  ranging from
analytical to transcendental and finally constructivist definitions. This leads to the
formulation of a new model of action  in which the core definitions developed in traditional
structuralist narratology and Greimassian semiotics are reconceptualised in the light of
constructivist theories.In the second part of the study  the combinatory model of action
proposed is put into practice in the context of a computer-aided investigation of the action
constructs logically implied by narrative texts. Two specialised literary computing tools were
developed for the purposes of this investigation of textual data: EVENTPARSER  an interactive
tool for parsing events in literary texts  and EPITEST  a tool for subjecting the mark-up files
thus produced to a combinatory analysis of the episode and action constructs they contain. The
third part of the book presents a case study of Goethe's Unterhaltungen deutscher
Ausgewanderten. Here  the practical application of theory and methodology eventually leads to a
new interpretation of Goethe's famous Novellenzyklus as a systematic experiment in the
narrative construction of action - an experiment intended to demonstrate not only Goethe's
aesthetic principles  but also  and more fundamentally  his epistemological convictions.

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