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Fiction updated : theories of fictionality, narratology, and poetics /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mihailescu, Calin Andrei, 1956-, Hamarneh, Walid, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Colección:Theory/culture series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 accepted theory of truth. This collection, dedicated to the noted scholar and literary critic Lubomir Dolezel, covers an extensive number of theoretical and historical issues relevant to our understanding of the status of fictions - literary or not. Fiction Updated offers approaches to fiction and poetics that, in an imaginary topography of contemporary humanities, dwell at a distance from both the mimetic theory of literature and deconstruction. The contributors introduce new perspectives to the problem of fictionality, or broaden the scope of its applications, by examining the works of such authors as Homer, Casanova, Aristotle, Woolf, Vaihinger, Borges, Kundera, Coetzee, and Bakhtin.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327).
ISBN:9781487578442
148757844X