Possible worlds theory and contemporary narratology

The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world...

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Glavni avtor: Bell, Alice, 1979-
Drugi avtorji: Ryan, Marie-Laure, 1946- (Directeur de la publication)
Format: Livre papier
Jezik:Anglais
Izdano: Lincoln (Neb.) : University of Nebraska Press C 2019.
Serija:Frontiers of narrative
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Kazalo:
  • P. 1
  • Introduction : Possible worlds theory revisited / Marie-Laure Ryan and Alice Bell
  • Part 1: Theoretical perspectives of possible worlds
  • P. 47
  • Porfyry's tree for the concept of fictional world / Lubomír Doležel
  • P. 62
  • From possible worlds to storyworlds: on the worldness of narrative representation / Marie-Laure Ryan
  • P. 88
  • Interface ontologies: on the possible, virtual, and hypothetical in fiction / Marina Grishakova
  • Part 2: Possible worlds and cognition
  • P. 113
  • Ungrounding fictional worlds: an enactivist perspective on the "worldlikeness" of fiction / Marco Caracciolo
  • P. 132
  • Postmodern play with worlds: the case of At Swim-Two-Birds / W. Michelle Wang
  • P. 157
  • Logical contradictions, possible worlds theory, and the embodied mind / Jan Alber
  • Part 3: Possible worlds and literary genres
  • P. 179
  • Escape into alternative worlds and time(s) in Jack London's The Star Rover / Christoph Bartsch
  • P. 201
  • "As many worlds as original artists": possible worlds theory and the literature of fantasy / Thomas L. Martin
  • P. 225
  • The best/worst of all possible worlds?: utopia, dystopia, and possible worlds theory / Mattison Schuknecht
  • Part 4: Possible worlds and digital media
  • P. 249
  • Digital fictionality: possible worlds theory, ontology, and hyperlinks / Alice Bell
  • P. 272
  • Possible worlds, virtual worlds / Françoise Lavocat
  • P. 296
  • Rereading Manovich's Algorithm: genre and use in possible world theory / Daniel Punday
  • P. 315
  • Postface / Thomas G. Pavel