True lies worldwide : fictionality in global contexts / edited by Anders Cullhed and Lena Rydholm ; contributors, Lars-Erik Berg [and twenty-one others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cullhed, Anders, 1951- editor.

Rydholm, Lena, editor.

Berg, Lars-Erik, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Literature and society--History and criticism.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

People of all times and in all cultures have produced and consumed fiction in a variety of forms, not only for entertainment, but also to spread knowledge, religious or political beliefs. Furthermore, fiction has taken part in reflecting and shaping the cultural identity of communities as well as the identity of individuals. This volume aims to explore the concept and the use of fiction from different epochs, in different cultures and in different forms, both ancient and more recent. It covers a broad field of interests, from ancient literature, art, philosophy and theater to Bollywood productions, television series and modern electronic media. Twenty-three scholars from ten countries and from different areas and fields of interests in the Humanities assembled in Stockholm on a conference in August 2012 to exchange views on "Fiction in Global Contexts". This volume presents the results of their discussions. It contains fresh perspectives on issues and topics such as: the nature of fiction fiction and its relationship to "truth" the demand for and the function and uses of fiction the development of fiction from ancient to modern times different forms of fiction fiction in social contexts or in a gender perspective

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Here, There - and Everywhere? Eastern examples

Chinese Theories and Concepts of Fiction and the Issue of Transcultural Theories and Concepts of Fiction / Rydholm, Lena

Literature as a Vehicle for the Dao: Changing Perspectives of Fiction and Truth in Chinese Literature / Lodén, Torbjörn

Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji: Fate and Fiction / Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla

The Fiction of the Image / Schuback, Marcia Sá Cavalcante

Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms Behind Literary Fiction / Pettersson, Anders

Photons of the Human Mind: The Fiction of Personal Identity / Berg, Lars-Erik

Live Fiction: Play & Performances

Interaction Between the Reader, the Critic and the Author: The Qing Dramatist Hong Sheng's Historical Play Changshengdian and Wu Yiyi's Commentary / Wang, Ayling

Performing Life and Live Theatre: Fiction in Popular Performances / Nygren, Christina

Fiction Past and Present: Historical Perspectives

Diagnosing Fiction: From Plato to Borges / Finkelberg, Margalit

Classical Persian Literature: Fiction, Didactics or Intuitive Truth? / Utas, Bo

Historicity and Fictionality in Medieval Narrative / Knapp, Fritz Peter

How the West was Won by Fiction: The Appearance of Fictional Narrative and Leisurely Reading in Western Literature (11th and 12th century) / Verbaal, Wim

Telling Tales: Narratology & Fictionality

Toward a Transcultural Poetics of Fiction: The Fusion of Narrative Visions in Chinese and Western Fiction Studies / Gu, Ming Dong

General Beliefs from Fiction / Rossholm, Göran

Historical Fiction: Experiencing the Past, Reflecting History / Hatavara, Mari

The Frontiers of Fiction: Recent Developments

Unsettling Fictions: Generic Instability and Colonial Time / Helgesson, Stefan

Whose Magic? Whose Realism? Reflections on Magical Realism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road / Larsen, Stephan

Confessions of the Hydra: Variations on the Concept of Fiction in Latin America / Kupchik, Christian

Coda: Fiction, Translation & Interaction

Fiction in Global Contexts: Translation, the Universal Language of Literature / Malmqvist, Göran

Afterword: Fiction as a Transcultural Entity / Currie, Gregory

List of Contributors

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110553000

3110553007

9781306935425

1306935423

9783110369465

311036946X

9783110303209

3110303205

OCLC:

882769272