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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... death of Cordelia in King Lear and pre- ferred the modified version by Nahum Tate in which Cordelia sur- vives and marries Edgar . 15 If a conjunction of properties defined proper names in fiction , Shakespeare's Cordelia would be a ...
... Death advances on stage and recites : Lo , yonder I see Everyman walking . Full little he thinketh on my coming ; His mind is on fleshly lusts and his treasure , And great pain it shall cause him to endure Before the Lord , heaven King ...
... death of one par- ticipant an obstacle ? In Poe's " The Gold - Bug " the treasure is found in spite of Kidd's death : the game of conspicuous novelty succeeds across generations . Absence does not necessarily affect the game , nor does ...
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Beyond Structuralism | 1 |
Size Incompleteness | 73 |
of the Imaginary | 136 |
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