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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... story and discourse , the story being most often identified with narrative structures , it was quite natural that the only alternative to plot studies were the examination of discursive techniques , an examination that , while producing ...
... story or myth and do not depend on the chronological unfolding of the story . Accordingly , Oedipus ' myth is reduced to the linkage of two semantic oppositions : the overrating of kinship relations versus its underrating and the ...
... story that shows how an everyday happening becomes a mythical story ( 1955 , pp . 19–20 ) . A Romanian folklorist doing field work in Maramuresh finds a heretofore unknown ballad . It tells the story of a young bridegroom bewitched by a ...
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Beyond Structuralism | 1 |
Size Incompleteness | 73 |
of the Imaginary | 136 |
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