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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Under the Jealous Gaze of Truth / Calin-Andrei Mihailescu and Walid Hamarneh
  • pt. 1. Fictions and Philosophies. 1. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? / Ruth Ronen. 2. Questions About the Nature of Fiction / Nicholas Rescher. 3. Fortress Fiction / John Woods. 4. Literary Fictions and Philosophical Theories: The Possible-Worlds Story / Peter McCormick
  • pt. 2. Models. 5. On Fictional Discourse / Felix Martinez-Bonati. 6. The Perception of Fictional Worlds / Pierre Ouellet. 7. Beyond Reality and Fiction? The Fate of Dualism in the Age of (Mass) Media / Siegfried J. Schmidt. 8. Models, Madness, and the Hereafter / Cesare Segre
  • pt. 3. Names, Genre, Gender. 9. Characters and Their Versions / Uri Margolin. 10. Naming Names in Telling Tales / Peter W. Nesselroth. 11. Fictionality, Narration, and the Question of Genres / Francesco Loriggio. 12. Narratology, Narratological Criticism, and Gender / Gerald Prince.