Exploring the connection between Peter Barry's Narratology and Reprogrammed Ai writing.

Shreya Gupta

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.70253

Exploring the connection between Peter Barry's Narratology and Reprogrammed Ai writing.

Author(s)	Ms. Shreya Gupta
Country	India
Abstract	This paper investigates the conceptual and structural links between Peter Barry's Introduction of Narratology in Beginning Theory and Contemporary Reprogrammed AI writing systems, particularly big language model-based text generators in today time. Barry integrates classical structuralist narratology into a systematic framework for analysing storytelling as a structure governed by rules, drawing on Propp's functional morphology, Genette's temporal theory, and the distinctions between narrative and discourse. This article argues that the operational logic of narrative generated by artificial intelligence is both hinted at and clarified by these structuralist concepts. The research demonstrates that AI writing systems include narratological notions in algorithmic formats by analysing computational narratology, neural language models, and symbolic story-generation systems from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Like structuralist narrative schemas, early rule-based narrative engines explicitly included act roles and plot grammars. Modern transformer-based models, however statistically driven rather than governed by strict rules, employ probabilistic sequence modelling and attention processes to intricately emulate story elements like as focalization, temporal sequencing, and discourse stratification. Research indicates that reprogrammed AI writing represents a transition from emergent probabilistic narrativity to deterministic structural narratology. This alteration both substantiates narratology's claim that storytelling operates as a system independent of human authorial awareness and challenges traditional notions of authorship, intentionality, and narrative coherence. This work presents a technique for evaluating AI-generated texts using conventional narratological categories, framing AI narrative generation as a computational embodiment and reinterpretation of structuralist narratology. Ultimately, it argues that Barry's narratological framework offers an essential viewpoint for understanding the potential and epistemological limits of narratives facilitated by AI.
Keywords	Peter Barry, Narratology, Narrative Temporality, Gerard Genette, Vladimir Propp, Artificial Intelligence Writing.
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-04
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.70253

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