Discussion

This chapter has been long through the necessity of presenting a wide range of work from multiple disciplines. Even so, I have not presented a single theory which captures all of the aspects which I claimed (in Chapter 1) to be required for a creative reading system to exist. Prior attempts have focused on pieces of that problem. As Chapter 5 will show, I make use of many of the ideas examined in this chapter in order to produce the framework I utilize in my research. Before presenting that synthesis, however, the next chapter develops the elements of my theory directly related to the knowledge representation which are required for creative reading to be modeled.