Possible Worlds of Fiction and History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Possible Worlds of Fiction and History write by Lubomír Doležel. This book was released on 2010-04-05. Possible Worlds of Fiction and History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomír Doležel reexamines the claim—made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White—that "there is no fundamental distinction between fiction and history." Doležel rejects this assertion and demonstrates how literary and discourse theory can help the historian to restate the difference between fiction and history. He challenges scholars to reassess the postmodern viewpoint by reintroducing the idea of possible worlds. Possible-worlds semantics reveals that possible worlds of fiction and possible worlds of history differ in their origins, cultural functions, and structural and semantic features. Doležel’s book is the first systematic application of this idea to the theory and philosophy of history. Possible Worlds of Fiction and History is the crowning work of one of literary theory’s most engaged thinkers.
Heterocosmica
Heterocosmica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heterocosmica write by Lubomír Doležel. This book was released on 2000-12-26. Heterocosmica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands. Literary fiction is probably the most active experimental laboratory of the world-constructing enterprise."—from the author's Preface The standard contrast between fiction and reality, notes Lubomír Dolezel, obscures an array of problems that have beset philosophers and literary critics for centuries. Commentators usually admit that fiction conveys some kind of truth—the truth of the story of Faust, for instance. They acknowledge that fiction usually bears some kind of relation to reality—for example, the London of Dickens. But both the status of the truth and the nature of the relationship have baffled, frustrated, or repelled a long line of thinkers. In Heterocosmica, Lubomír Dolezel offers nothing less than a complete theory of literary fiction based on the idea of possible worlds. Beginning with a discussion of the extant semantics and pragmatics of fictionality—by Leibniz, Russell, Frege, Searle, Auerbach, and others—he relates them to literature, literary theory, and narratology. He also investigates theories of action, intention, and literary communication to develop a system of concepts that allows him to offer perceptive reinterpretations of a host of classical, modern, and postmodern fictional narratives—from Defoe through Dickens, Dostoevsky, Huysmans, Bely, and Kafka to Hemingway, Kundera, Rhys, Plenzdorf, and Coetzee. By careful attention to philosophical inquiry into possible worlds, especially Saul Kripke's and Jaakko Hintikka's, and through long familiarity with literary theory, Dolezel brings us an unprecedented examination of the notion of fictional worlds.
Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction
Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction write by Riyukta Raghunath. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a literary genre that comprises narratives set in worlds whose histories run contrary to the history of our world, usually speculating on what would have happened had a significant historical event (such as a war) turned out differently. The author develops a systematic critical approach based on a customised model of Possible Worlds Theory supplemented by cognitive concepts that account for the different processes that readers go through when they read counterfactual historical fiction, a genre which relies heavily on pre-existing knowledge about history and culture. This book will be of interest to anyone working with Possible Worlds, including within the fields of philosophy, literary studies, stylistics, cognitive poetics, and narratology.
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Possible Worlds of Fiction and History write by Lubomír Doležel. This book was released on 2010-03-02. Possible Worlds of Fiction and History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Possible Worlds of Fiction and History is the crowning work of one of literary theory’s most engaged thinkers.
Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology
Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology write by Alice Bell. This book was released on 2019. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 that we belong to and possible worlds created by the imagination, possible worlds theory has made significant contributions to narratology. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology updates the field of possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of contemporary literary narratives. This volume systematically outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the possible worlds approach, provides updated methods for analyzing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of different texts, including contemporary fiction, digital fiction, video games, graphic novels, historical narratives, and dramatic texts. Through the variety of its contributions, including those by three originators of the subject area--Lubomír Doležel, Thomas Pavel, and Marie-Laure Ryan--Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology demonstrates the vitality and versatility of one of the most vibrant strands of contemporary narrative theory.
