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How to make believe : the fictional truths of the representational arts /

Over the last two decades, the notion of make-believe has become a major theory for the understanding of representational arts in general. As a contribution to this development, the current volume provides 17 articles on how make-believe theory can be used to explain the generation of fictional trut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bareis, J. Alexander (Editor ), Nordrum, Lene (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Colección:Narratologia ; Volume 49.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1
  • Theory
  • The Concept of Literary Realism
  • Thought, Make-Believe and the Opacity of Narrative
  • Narrative per se and Narratability
  • Section 2
  • Literature and Film
  • Distance in Fiction
  • Narration, Representation, Memoir, Truth, and Lies: How We Diminish the Art of Narrative with Simple Truths
  • Truth in Fiction
  • Destabilizing Reality: Postmodern Narrative and the Logic of Make-Believe
  • The Place for External Considerations in Reading Literary Fiction
  • Fictional Truth, Principles of Generation, and Interpretation: Or: Why it is Fictionally True that Tony Soprano was Shot Dead
  • Deixis in Literary and Film Fiction: Intra-Ontological Reference and the Case of Controlling Fictional Narrators
  • Metalepsis and Participation in Games of Make-Believe
  • 'I grieve' as Make-Believe: Generating Fictional Truth in Eighteenth-Century Lamentation Poetry (Günther, Haller, Young and Novalis)
  • Section 3
  • Theatre and Music
  • Fictionality and Make-Believe in Drama, Theatre and Opera
  • Making Meaning in the Theatre: Double Noesis
  • Impurely Musical Make-Believe
  • Section 4
  • Games
  • Make-Believe Wickedness vs. Wicked Making-Believe: RPGs, Imagination and Moral Complicity
  • Agency and Volition in Make-Believe Worlds
  • Prop Perspective and the Aesthetics of Play
  • Index
  • Contact Addresses.