Possible Worlds in Literary TheoryCambridge University Press, 26 mai 1994 - 244 pages The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory, and offers an analysis of the way the concept contributes to our understanding of fictionality and the structure and ontology of fictional worlds. Dr Ronen suggests a new set of criteria for the definition of fictionality, making rigorous distinctions between fictional and possible worlds; and through specific studies of domains within fictional worlds - events, objects, time, and point of view - she proposes a radical rethinking of the problem of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular. |
Table des matières
Possible worlds fictional worlds | 17 |
The philosophical notion of possible worlds and its basic relevance to fictional worlds | 18 |
Philosophers approach to fiction | 30 |
Possible worlds in a wider context | 34 |
The possibility of fictional worlds | 47 |
Possibility and actuality | 48 |
Accessibility | 61 |
Possible worlds between the disciplines again | 71 |
Fictional events and the intricacies of plot | 144 |
Plotmodels and their object of investigation | 150 |
Plotmodels and structuralist ideology | 156 |
Narrative semantics from syntactic to semantic plotmodels | 165 |
Plot as a constellation of possible worlds | 167 |
Focalization and fictional perspective | 175 |
Focalization on the fictional world | 179 |
Types of organization that focalization imposes on fictional domains | 184 |
The fictionality of fictional worlds | 76 |
The pragmatics of fiction its ontological logical and epistemological distinctive features | 87 |
The autonomy of fiction and the concept of world | 96 |
Fictional entities incomplete beings | 108 |
The incompleteness of fictional entities | 114 |
Are fictional entities equally incomplete? | 122 |
Theories of naming and the completeness of entities | 130 |
Definitization of entities and the completeness of fictional objects | 136 |
Types of organization that narrative modalities impose on fictional domains | 191 |
Fictional time | 197 |
The analogy between time of fiction and time of actuality | 199 |
The reliance of temporality of fiction on the modal operation of temporal concepts | 202 |
Conclusion | 229 |
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