Digital Literary Analysis of AI-Generated Stories: Narrative Structure, Characterization, Themes, and Creativity in Computational Storytelling
Keywords:
Digital Literature, Artificial Intelligence, AI-Generated Stories, Narrative Analysis, Computational CreativityAbstract
The rapid development of artificial intelligence and generative language technologies has contributed to the emergence of AI-generated literary texts as a significant phenomenon within contemporary digital literature. As AI systems increasingly participate in creative writing, questions regarding narrative construction, literary quality, creativity, and authorship have become important areas of scholarly investigation. This study aims to analyze the literary characteristics of AI-generated stories through a digital literary perspective, focusing on narrative structure, characterization, themes, language, style, and creativity. The research employed a qualitative approach using digital literary analysis, with AI-generated narratives collected from contemporary generative AI platforms as the primary data source. The findings reveal that AI-generated stories generally demonstrate coherent narrative structures characterized by clear beginnings, middles, and endings, logical plot progression, and identifiable climaxes and resolutions. In terms of characterization, the stories contain consistent protagonists and supporting characters, although they often lack deep emotional and psychological complexity. Linguistically, the stories exhibit grammatical fluency, rich vocabulary, and effective descriptive imagery; however, they frequently rely on conventional metaphors, repetitive expressions, and familiar stylistic patterns. Regarding creativity, AI-generated narratives demonstrate a strong ability to reproduce established literary conventions and narrative structures but show limitations in originality, innovation, and profound artistic expression. Overall, the study concludes that AI-generated storytelling possesses considerable literary potential as an emerging form of digital literature, particularly in terms of narrative coherence and linguistic competence, yet remains constrained by limitations in emotional depth, stylistic originality, and creative complexity when compared to highly sophisticated human-authored literary works.
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