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Fictional worlds

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.
Print Book, English, 1989
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, 1989
VIII, 178 Seiten
9780674299665, 9780674299658, 0674299663, 0674299655
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1. Beyond Structuralism 2. Fictional Beings 3. Salient Worlds 4. Border, Distance, Size, Incompleteness 5. Conventions 6. The Economy of the Imaginary Notes References Index