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Possible Worlds in Literary Theory

Possible Worlds in Literary Theory

Ronen, Ruth
Cascardi, Anthony
Macksey, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, Book 7

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521450179
ISBN13: 9780521450171
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 26 1994
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory. She suggests new criteria for the definition of fictionality; and through specific studies of domains within fictional worlds--events, objects, time and point of view--she proposes a radical rethinking of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular.

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