How Literary Worlds Are Shaped : : A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination /

How Literary Worlds Are Shaped : : A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination / / Bo Pettersson.

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Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it claims, is based on individual and shared huma...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
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Pettersson, Bo,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory , 54
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Imaginative World-Making
  • 2. The Imaginative Uses of Mimesis
  • 3. Kinds of Unreliability
  • 4. The Shaping of Literary Worlds
  • 5. Key Combinations: Figures and Narratives
  • 6. Other Imaginative Inflections
  • 7. How Literary Worlds Shape Us
  • 8. Why Literature Matters
  • 9. Ten Reasons to Study and Teach Literary Worlds
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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