Fictional WorldsHarvard University Press, 1986 - 178 pagine Creators of fiction demand that we venture into alien spaces, into the worlds of Antigone, Don Quixote, Faust, Sherlock Holmes. Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties and their reason for being. Thomas Pavelis a noted literary theorist and a novelist as well. His genial, graceful book has a polemical edge: he notes that structuralism started as a project to infuse new life into literary studies through the devices of linguistics. That project undercut referential issues, however, and is now obsolete. Pavelargues that what matters about fiction is its relation to the human capacity of invention and the complex requirements of imagination. He moves decisively beyond the constraints of formalism and textualism toward a diverse theory of fiction that is sensitive to both literary and philosophical concerns. Along the way he takes its through special landscapes that reveal the inextricability of art, religion, and myth. This is a venturesome book of the first order. |
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... belonging to the cluster are pres- ent . Under this theory , the name " Cordelia " stands for a group of properties like " x is Lear's younger daughter , " " x leads a French landing in Britain , " " x marries the king of France , " " x ...
... belonging to the system K and their possible alternatives within K. To establish a relation of alternativeness from one world to the next , one needs a criterion - say the identity of the individuals who populate the worlds . We may say ...
... belonging to the system K are not necessarily identical : a world H that is possible relative to the actual world G may contain more or less individuals than G , unless , of course , the relation R is so defined as to link only worlds ...
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Beyond Structuralism | 1 |
Size Incompleteness | 73 |
of the Imaginary | 136 |
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