substory

Maeiutic fiction: In some reflective realist fiction, this rationalism becomes an axiom of the substory.

On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction Hal Duncan 2009

Equilibrium warp too may be discussed in such terms, as a product of themes and subtexts, as a feature of substory.

Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

Equilibrium warp: Equilibrium can be considered the state of the substory at any point where what “can happen” carries deontic and/or boulomaic modalities that effectively neutralise each other — i.e. where it “may and/or may not happen” — or that dynamically counterbalance each other — i.e. where it “should and should not happen”.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Far more important is the substory, as relevant now as then, that this is how it “can happen”.

Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

Equilibrium warp: Equilibrium can be considered the state of the substory at any point where what “can happen” carries deontic and/or boulomaic modalities that effectively neutralise each other — i.e. where it “may and/or may not happen” — or that dynamically counterbalance each other — i.e. where it “should and should not happen”.

Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

Equilibrium warp too may be discussed in such terms, as a product of themes and subtexts, as a feature of substory.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

The basic plot of each substory involves Yayoi getting tricked by a demon and rendered helpless.

Tokyopop Chibis: .hack 4koma, Alice in the Country of Hearts, Red Hot Chili Samurai, Mugen Spiral » Manga Worth Reading 2010

Far more important is the substory, as relevant now as then, that this is how it “can happen”.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Maeiutic fiction: In some reflective realist fiction, this rationalism becomes an axiom of the substory.

Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

The final point of this descent into mediocrity came Wednesday with a daytime soap-level substory combined with a completely unexplained and unsubstantiated volte-face of a major character - who was also handed a clumsy bit of exposition to deliver that I can't believe Sorkin would have ever written, either drunk or stoned.

treeclimbing done *right*, theremin extension, and "the nod" badger 2004