Fiction Updated : Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics / Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Walid Hamarneh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamarneh, Walid, Editor.

Mihailescu, Calin-Andrei, Editor.

Series:

Theory/culture series.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fictions, Theory of.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Poetics.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Novels, movies, and lies - these are all fictions that provoke with their as ifs and what ifs. In response to the idea that fiction has somehow become an unfashionable topic in contemporary criticism, this volume argues that the question of fiction needs to be updated in the absence of a widely accepted theory of truth. This collection, dedicated to the noted scholar and literary critic Lubomir Dolezel, covers an extensive number of theoretical and historical issues relevant to our understanding of the status of fictions - literary or not. Fiction Updated offers approaches to fiction and poetics that, in an imaginary topography of contemporary humanities, dwell at a distance from both the mimetic theory of literature and deconstruction. The contributors introduce new perspectives to the problem of fictionality, or broaden the scope of its applications, by examining the works of such authors as Homer, Casanova, Aristotle, Woolf, Vaihinger, Borges, Kundera, Coetzee, and Bakhtin.

Contents:

Introduction: Under the Jealous Gaze of Truth / Calin-Andrei Mihailescu and Walid Hamarneh

pt. 1. Fictions and Philosophies. 1. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? / Ruth Ronen. 2. Questions About the Nature of Fiction / Nicholas Rescher. 3. Fortress Fiction / John Woods. 4. Literary Fictions and Philosophical Theories: The Possible-Worlds Story / Peter McCormick

pt. 2. Models. 5. On Fictional Discourse / Felix Martinez-Bonati. 6. The Perception of Fictional Worlds / Pierre Ouellet. 7. Beyond Reality and Fiction? The Fate of Dualism in the Age of (Mass) Media / Siegfried J. Schmidt. 8. Models, Madness, and the Hereafter / Cesare Segre

pt. 3. Names, Genre, Gender. 9. Characters and Their Versions / Uri Margolin. 10. Naming Names in Telling Tales / Peter W. Nesselroth. 11. Fictionality, Narration, and the Question of Genres / Francesco Loriggio. 12. Narratology, Narratological Criticism, and Gender / Gerald Prince.

Notes:

Some essays are revised versions of papers presented at a conference entitled Fictions and worlds, held at the University of Toronto, spring, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-327).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-7844-X

OCLC:

1153476661