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\"Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, distress, and incipient madness. The two men's uneasiness soon becomes a nightmare as the TV adventure advances with a real-life plot--involving a mutant strain of killer algae--to take over the world!\"--Amazon.com.
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Macedonio Fernández y Jorge Luis Borges: Metafísica y Literatura
Macedonio Fernández remite en la tradición literaria argentina, a otro nombre propio, Borges, y con él a la vanguardia martinfierrista. El nombre propio, en este caso, designa también la relación precursor-discípulo que contiene ejes problemáticos de continuidad y evolución y subsume el nombre del primero a la vaga estela de influencias del segundo.La escena que Borges repite una y otra vez, los atributos que le otorga a su personaje Macedonio, en definitiva, su ejercicio de lectura que es siempre una forma literaria, nos propone una experiencia estética, un experimento de la desatención macedoniana: la forma de una comunidad imaginaria en la que todos nos libramos de los lastres del yo. (“Emoción artística” llama Macedonio a esa experiencia).De esta manera en esa escena metafísica que Borges nos propone, la alteridad se hace Altruística en términos de Macedonio. Macedonio Fernández se salva del solipsismo y pone en práctica su Altruística o Pasión que es, sobre todo, la conversación de los amigos. Borges lo sabe. Su literatura nos crea la ilusión de que estamos presentes en esa conversación infinita.
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Quiet please, Owen McPhee!
\"A nonstop talker learns about the power of listening when he comes down with a case of laryngitis\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fictional Dialogue
Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gérard Genette as \"one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel.\" Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon little acknowledged or explored in the critical literature.Fictional Dialoguedemonstrates the richness and versatility of dialogue as a narrative technique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by focusing on extended extracts and sequences of utterances. It also examines how different versions of dialogue may help to normalize or idealize certain patterns and practices, thereby excluding alternative possibilities or eliding \"unevenness\" and differences.
Bronwen Thomas, by bringing together theories and models of fictional dialogue from a wide range of disciplines and intellectual traditions, shows how the subject raises profound questions concerning our understanding of narrative and human communication. The first study of its kind to combine literary and narratological analysis with reference to linguistic terms and models, Bakhtinian theory, cultural history, media theory, and cognitive approaches, this book is also the first to focus in depth on the dialogue novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and to bring together examples of dialogue from literature, popular fiction, and nonlinear narratives. Beyond critiquing existing methods of analysis, it outlines a promising new method for analyzing fictional dialogue.
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Komi can't communicate
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi would love to make friends, but her shyness is interpreted as reserve, and the other students keep her at a distance. Only timid Tadano realizes the truth, and despite his own desire to blend in, he decides to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends -- adapted from cover description.
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THINKING ABOUT WATCHMEN
Michael Boyce Gillespie leads a roundtable with scholars Jonathan W. Gray, Rebecca A. Wanzo, and Kristen Warner to discuss issues of medium, genre, fandom, and African American history in the highly regarded HBO series Watchmen. Characterizing the HBO series as a disobedient adaptation that modifies, extends, and redirects the world making of its source material—the famed twelve-issue comic-book series of the same name, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons (1986–87)—Gillespie et al. explore the ways in which Watchmen remediates American history, starting with the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 that serves as the historical and ideological trigger that sets the series in motion. In a wide-ranging conversation that encompasses subjects including fan fiction, adaptation, cultural mythology, and black superheroes, the authors argue for Watchmen's significance as some of the most consequential television of the century so far.
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Fictional dialogue : speech and conversation in the modern and postmodern novel
\"Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gerard Genette as \"one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel.\" Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon little acknowledged or explored in the critical literature. Fictional Dialogue demonstrates the richness and versatility of dialogue as a narrative technique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by focusing on extended extracts and sequences of utterances. It also examines how different versions of dialogue may help to normalize or idealize certain patterns and practices, thereby excluding alternative possibilities or eliding \"unevenness\" and differences. Bronwen Thomas, by bringing together theories and models of fictional dialogue from a wide range of disciplines and intellectual traditions, shows how the subject raises profound questions concerning our understanding of narrative and human communication. The first study of its kind to combine literary and narratological analysis with reference to linguistic terms and models, Bakhtinian theory, cultural history, media theory, and cognitive approaches, this book is also the first to focus in depth on the dialogue novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and to bring together examples of dialogue from literature, popular fiction, and nonlinear narratives. Beyond critiquing existing methods of analysis, it outlines a promising new method for analyzing fictional dialogue\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Conversational recommendation: A grand AI challenge
Animated avatars, which look and talk like humans, are iconic visions of the future of AI‐powered systems. Through many sci‐fi movies, we are acquainted with the idea of speaking to such virtual personalities as if they were humans. Today, we talk more and more to machines like Apple's Siri, for example, to ask them for the weather forecast. However, when asked for recommendations, for example, for a restaurant to go to, the limitations of such devices quickly become obvious. They do not engage in a conversation to find out what we might prefer, they often do not provide explanations for what they recommend, and they may have difficulties remembering what was said 1 min earlier. Conversational recommender systems (CRS) promise to address these limitations. In this paper, we review existing approaches to building such systems, which developments we observe today, which challenges are still open and why the development of conversational recommenders represents one of the next grand challenges of AI.
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