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Hannes Bajohr defines generative literature as literature involving "the automatic production of text according to predetermined parameters, usually following a combinatory, sometimes aleatory logic, and it emphasizes the production rather than the reception of the work (unlike, say, hypertext)."
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Story generators have often followed specific narratological theories of how stories are constructed. An early example is Grimes' Fairy Tales, the "first to take a grammar-based approach and the first to operationalize Propp's famous model."
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writing. Baillehache states, "When compared to earlier uses of chance operation in literature, a piece like this one resembles some of the automatic writings produced by
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is that the former is produced according to a computational algorithm involving randomizers and user interaction, and the latter by two free-wheeling human subjects."
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is poetry or fiction that is automatically generated, often using computers. It is a genre of
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Ryan, James (2017), Nunes, Nuno; Oakley, Ian; Nisi, Valentina (eds.),
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connects generative literature to avant-garde literary movements like
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is an example of generative narrative. Jonathan Baillehache compares
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Poetry and fiction generated automatically, usually using computers.
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The first examples of automated generative literature are poetry:
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Bajohr describes two main paradigms of generative literature: the
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Story machines: how computers have become creative writers
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Media Culture and Cultural Techniques Working Papers
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Index

Electronic literature
Digital poetry
Generative art
electronic literature
generative art
John Clark
Latin Verse Machine
Christopher Strachey
love letter generator
large language models
Scott Rettberg
Dada
Surrealism
Oulipo
Fluxus
conceptual art
algorithms
neural nets
John Clark
Latin Verse Machine
Christopher Strachey
love letter generator
Manchester Mark 1
artificial neural networks
David Jhave Johnston
ReRites
Mike Sharples
Storyland
Nanette Wylde
Surrealist

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