Fictional WorldsHarvard University Press, 1986 - 178 páginas Creators of fiction demand that we venture into alien spaces, into the worlds of Antigone, Don Quixote, Faust, Sherlock Holmes. Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties and their reason for being. Thomas Pavelis a noted literary theorist and a novelist as well. His genial, graceful book has a polemical edge: he notes that structuralism started as a project to infuse new life into literary studies through the devices of linguistics. That project undercut referential issues, however, and is now obsolete. Pavelargues that what matters about fiction is its relation to the human capacity of invention and the complex requirements of imagination. He moves decisively beyond the constraints of formalism and textualism toward a diverse theory of fiction that is sensitive to both literary and philosophical concerns. Along the way he takes its through special landscapes that reveal the inextricability of art, religion, and myth. This is a venturesome book of the first order. |
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... accept the consequences of his utterance . We shall see , however , that this is an exorbitantly severe rule . ( 2 ) The preparatory rule : the speaker must be capable of defending the truth of the assertion . Gabriel calls this ...
... accept readily the consequences of what they say . We do not individually possess qualities such as sincerity , ability to argue about assertions , and readiness to accept their consequences , except for a very limited range of ...
... accept that Sherlock Holmes , who does not belong to the set of individuals of our world , would have existed in other states of affairs ? Aristotle maintains that " it is not the poet's business to tell what happened , but the kind of ...
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Beyond Structuralism | 1 |
Size Incompleteness | 73 |
of the Imaginary | 136 |
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