This paper proposes an integrated framework of narrative discourse system that trans-
forms a story text to a variety of discourse texts. This mechanism is one of the major
parts of the architecture of our narrative generation system. A “story” means the
content of a narrative and is described with the conceptual representation of temporal
ordered events in the narrative generation system. On the other hand, a “discourse”
means how to form a story and is described with the conceptual representation that is
corresponded to a real text structure. In the research of narrative generation system,
few approaches deal with the aspect of narrative discourse. A distinguished characteris-
tic in this system is to use two literary theories for developing its important mechanisms.
First, narrative discourse techniques for manipulating narrative discourse structures are
defined according to the narrative discourse theory by Genette. Second, the circula-
tive generation process for these narrative discourse techniques is controlled using the
repetitive interaction between a narrator and a narratee based on a computational in-
terpretation of the reception theory by Jauss. In the first part, this paper explains the
overview of the above literary theories. And in the next parts, we describe the pro-
posed system's mechanism and implementation, and several experiments of discourse generation by the system.
