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
Author: Thomas G. Pavel
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: worlds, fictional
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674299663
ISBN-13: 9780674299665
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 structur
Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: woods, fictional, walks, six
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0674810503
ISBN-13: 9780674810501
In this exhilarating book, companion and guide Umberto Eco--bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum--explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Eco makes readers his collaborators in the creation of his text and the investigation of fiction’s mechanisms. 14 illustrations.
Author: Tema Nason
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: autobiography, fictional, ethel
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2002-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815607458
ISBN-13: 9780815607458
In this fictional autobiography, Ethel Rosenberg - condemned to death and protesting her innocence - tells her story.
Author: A Padmanabhan
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing
Keywords: malgonkar, manohar, world, fictional
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2002-01-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8126900954
ISBN-13: 9788126900954
Author: Alan Palmer
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: narrative, frontiers, minds, fictional
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 080323743X
ISBN-13: 9780803237438
Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process, traditional narrative theory does not include a complete and coherent theory of fictional minds. Readers create a continuing consciousness out of scattered references to a particular character and read this consciousness as an embedded narrative” within the whole narrative of the novel. The combination of these embedded narratives forms the plot. This perspective on narrative enables
