| Description |
xii, 339 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Parallax : re-visions of culture and society |
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Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
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| Contents |
Prologue T: From Nonexistent Entities to Fictional Worlds -- 1. Narrative Worlds -- Starter Terms I. One-Person Worlds. Action and Motivation. Multiperson Worlds. Interaction and Power. Narrative Modalities -- 2. Intensional Functions -- Starter Terms II. Authentication. Saturation. Modern Myth -- Epilogue: Fictional Worlds in Transduction: Postmodernist Rewrites |
| Summary |
In Heterocosmica, Lubomir Dolezel offers a complete theory of literary fiction based on the idea of possible worlds. Beginning with a discussion of the extant semantics and pragmatics of fictionality - by Leibniz, Russell, Frege, Searle, Auerbach, and others - he relates them to literature, literary theory, and narratology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-320) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
97028537 |
| ISBN |
080185749X (alk. paper) |
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