
Possible Worlds in Literary Theory
Part of Literature, Culture, Theory
- Author: Ruth Ronen, Tel-Aviv University
- Date Published: May 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521456487
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The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory, and offers an analysis of the way the concept contributes to our understanding of fictionality and the structure and ontology of fictional worlds. Dr Ronen suggests a new set of criteria for the definition of fictionality, making rigorous distinctions between fictional and possible worlds; and through specific studies of domains within fictional worlds - events, objects, time, and point of view - she proposes a radical rethinking of the problem of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular.
Read more- The first interdisciplinary study of the problem of fiction through the originally philosophical concept of possible worlds
- Makes issues crystal-clear in lucid style
- No. 7 in prestigious Cambridge University Press series Literature, Culture, Theory
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- Date Published: May 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521456487
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Possible worlds, fictional worlds
2. The possibility of fictional worlds
3. The fictionality of fictional worlds
4. Fictional entities, incomplete beings
5. Fictional events and the intricacies of plot
6. Focalization and fictional perspective
7. Fictional time
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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