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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... possible world , the set K may be viewed as a set of possible worlds , the privileged member G as the real world , and the relation R as the link between various worlds belonging to the system K and their possible alternatives within K ...
Thomas G. Pavel. called necessary truths ; conversely , a proposition is possible in our real world , if it is true in at least one possible world accessible from ours . The model structure becomes a quantificational model structure if ...
... possible alternatives . The actual world as well as the relation of accessibility are different for the authors of medieval miracle plays compared to the author of a modern mystery novel . A world in which the statue of the Virgin Mary ...
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Beyond Structuralism | 1 |
Size Incompleteness | 73 |
of the Imaginary | 136 |
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