Author: Rozik Eli
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Keywords: fictional, theatre, creativity, poetics, thinking, rhetoric
Number of Pages: 323
Published: 2009-09
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1845193261
ISBN-13: 9781845193263

This book offers a theory of the archaic mode of fictional thinking and a methodology for the analysis of fictional worlds. It presupposes the mutual independence of the description of a fictional world, in any language or medium, and the described fictional world. Such a world is generated by an autonomous fictional structure, which reflects the spontaneous expectations of the spectator, and thematic specification. A model of this structure is presented, comprising seven layers: personified, mythical, praxical, naive, ironic and aesthetic - and overriding these layers, the fictional experienc

Author: Eli Rozik
Publisher: Sussex Academic Pr
Keywords: fictional, theatre, creativity, poetics, thinking, rhetoric
Number of Pages: 323
Published: 2009-09
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 184519327X
ISBN-13: 9781845193270

This book offers a theory of the archaic mode of fictional thinking and a methodology for the analysis of fictional worlds. It presupposes the mutual independence of the description of a fictional world, in any language or medium, and the described fictional world. Such a world is generated by an autonomous fictional structure, which reflects the spontaneous expectations of the spectator, and thematic specification. A model of this structure is presented, comprising seven layers: personified, mythical, praxical, naive, ironic and aesthetic - and overriding these layers, the fictional experienc