Fiction Updated : : Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics /

Fiction Updated : : Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics / / ed. by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Walid Hamarneh.

Novels, movies, and lies – these are all fictions that provoke with their as ifs and what ifs. In response to the idea that fiction has somehow become an unfashionable topic in contemporary criticism, this volume argues that the question of fiction needs to be updated in the absence of a widely acce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Coste, Didier,
Eco, Umberto,
Felson-Rubin, Nancy,
Fokkema, Douwe W.,
Hutcheon, Linda,
Kushner, Eva,
Loriggio, Francesco,
Margolin, Uri,
Martinez-Bonati, Felix,
Matejka, Ladislav,
McCormick, Peter,
Mihailescu, Calin-Andrei,
Mozejko, Edward,
Nesselroth, Peter. W.,
Ouellet, Pierre,
Pavel, Thomas G.,
Prince, Gerald,
Rescher, Nicholas,
Riffaterre, Michael,
Ronen, Ruth,
Ruprecht, Hans-George,
Schmidt, Siegfried J.,
Segre, Cesare,
Steiner, Peter,
Woods, John,
HerausgeberIn:
Hamarneh, Walid,
Mihailescu, Calin-Andrei,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©1996
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Under the Jealous Gaze of Truth
  • PART 1. FICTIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES
  • 1. Are Fictional Worlds Possible?
  • 2. Questions About the Nature of Fiction
  • 3. Fortress Fiction
  • 4. Literary Fictions and Philosophical Theories: The Possible-Worlds Story
  • PART 2. MODELS
  • 5. On Fictional Discourse
  • 6. The Perception of Fictional Worlds
  • 7. Beyond Reality and Fiction? The Fate of Dualism in the Age of (Mass) Media
  • 8. Models, Madness, and the Hereafter
  • PART 3. NAMES, GENRE, GENDER
  • 9. Characters and Their Versions
  • 10. Naming Names in Telling Tales
  • 11. Fictionality, Narration, and the Question of Genres
  • 12. Narratology, Narratological Criticism, and Gender
  • 13. The Renaissance Dialogue and Its Zero-Degree-Fictionality
  • PART 4. FICTIONS AND HISTORIES
  • 14. Signposts in Oral Epic: Metapragmatic and Metasemantic Signals
  • 15. Of Worlds and Nutshells: On Casanova's Icosameron
  • 16. Ironies of History: The joke of Milan Kundera
  • 17. The Politics of Impossible Worlds
  • PART 5. POETICS
  • 18. Thoughts on Aristotle's Poetics
  • 19. Chronotopes in Diegesis
  • 20. Deconstructing Bakhtin
  • 21. Scratching the Bronze Mirror: Looking for Traces of Fictionality in Chinese Poetics
  • 22. Formalist and Structuralist Activity in Poland: Tradition and Progress
  • PART 6. DOLEZEL AND HIS WORLDS
  • 23. An Improbable Side by Side: Dolezel and Borges in Prague
  • 24. Lubomfr Dolezel' s Contribution to Contemporary Literary Studies
  • Bibliography

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