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True Lies Worldwide : Fictionality in Global Contexts.
In today's world, fiction seems to be present everywhere, not only in traditional media such as books or movies, but on the web, in computer games or virtual environments. This book gathers twenty-three scholars from ten countries with the aim to explore the idea and the use of fiction in diffe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Here, There
- and Everywhere? Eastern examples; Chinese Theories and Concepts of Fiction and the Issue of Transcultural Theories and Concepts of Fiction; Literature as a Vehicle for the Dao: Changing Perspectives of Fiction and Truth in Chinese Literature; Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji: Fate and Fiction; Fictional Spaces: Image, Language & Identity; The Fiction of the Image; Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms Behind Literary Fiction; Photons of the Human Mind: The Fiction of Personal Identity; Live Fiction: Play & Performances.
- Interaction Between the Reader, the Critic and the Author: The Qing Dramatist Hong Sheng's Historical Play Changshengdian and Wu Yiyi's CommentaryPerforming Life and Live Theatre: Fiction in Popular Performances; Fiction Past and Present: Historical Perspectives; Diagnosing Fiction: From Plato to Borges; Classical Persian Literature: Fiction, Didactics or Intuitive Truth?; Historicity and Fictionality in Medieval Narrative; How the West was Won by Fiction: The Appearance of Fictional Narrative and Leisurely Reading in Western Literature (11th and 12th century).
- Telling Tales: Narratology & FictionalityToward a Transcultural Poetics of Fiction: The Fusion of Narrative Visions in Chinese and Western Fiction Studies; General Beliefs from Fiction; Historical Fiction: Experiencing the Past, Reflecting History; The Frontiers of Fiction: Recent Developments; Unsettling Fictions: Generic Instability and Colonial Time; Whose Magic? Whose Realism? Reflections on Magical Realism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road; Confessions of the Hydra: Variations on the Concept of Fiction in Latin America; Coda: Fiction, Translation & Interaction.
- Fiction in Global Contexts: Translation, the Universal Language of LiteratureAfterword: Fiction as a Transcultural Entity; List of Contributors; Index of Names.