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Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology /

The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ryan, Marie-Laure, 1946- (Editor ), Bell, Alice, 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Possible worlds theory revisited / Marie-Laure Ryan and Alice Bell
  • Porfyry's tree for the concept of fictional world / Lubomír Dole'el
  • From possible worlds to storyworlds: on the worldness of narrative representation / Marie-Laure Ryan
  • Interface ontologies: on the possible, virtual, and hypothetical in fiction / Marina Grishakova
  • Ungrounding fictional worlds: an enactivist perspective on the "worldlikeness" of fiction / Marco Caracciolo
  • Postmodern play with worlds: the case of At Swim-Two-Birds / W. Michelle Wang
  • Logical contradictions, possible worlds theory, and the embodied mind / Jan Alber
  • Escape into alternative worlds and time(s) in Jack London's The Star Rover / Christoph Bartsch
  • "As many worlds as original artists": possible worlds theory and the literature of fantasy / Thomas L. Martin
  • The best/worst of all possible worlds?: utopia, dystopia, and possible worlds theory / Mattison Schuknecht
  • Digital fictionality: possible worlds theory, ontology, and hyperlinks / Alice Bell
  • Possible worlds, virtual worlds / Françoise Lavocat
  • Rereading Manovich's Algorithm: genre and use in possible world theory / Daniel Punday.