aceNarrative Coherence and Distributed Authorship in Nineteen Eighty-Four and 1 the Road: A Comparative Case Study
Generative text systems challenge established accounts of literary authorship, creative agency, and communicative intentionality. This qualitative comparative case study examines selected passages from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (2003) and Ross Goodwin’s 1 the Road (2018), an early sensor-driven LSTM experiment. Informed by computational creativity and posthumanist accounts of distributed cognition, the study compares the texts in relation to local cohesion, global narrative continuity, temporal and ca…
The sensor-driven LSTM system behind 1 the Road demonstrated an ability to generate locally fluent text with occasionally striking word combinations in selected passages.
The same system showed substantially weaker longer-range referential and narrative continuity, lacking the sustained plotting and thematic organisation observed in Orwell's novel.
Findings are historically bounded to a specific early LSTM system, genre, and production setup and do not establish a universal boundary between human and AI creativity.
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- Peer-reviewedDialogica2026-08-04
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