Narrative Structure Analysis Punchlines of SF Genre within the Flash Fiction of Shinichi Hoshi

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the narrative structure leading to punchlines of genre SF within the flashfiction of Shinichi Hoshi, based on classical plot analysis method. This is a process to create plots, and then towrite texts for automatic generation of stories. There is a feasibility to generate automatically more naturalstories by analyzing narrative structure leading to punchlines. This paper focuses on the categories of "space","medicine", "automatic device, invention, computer" and "robot" stories from science fiction genre, which is arepresentative genre of Shinichi. By utilizing the result of unification and abstraction of the patterns of the themeand conditions / precondition, it would be possible to generate automatically a more natural story like Hoshi.