1. Beyond Structuralism 2. Fictional Beings 3. Salient Worlds 4. Border, Distance, Size, Incompleteness 5. Conventions 6. The Economy of the Imaginary Notes References Index
Fictional Worlds brings powerfully to bear on its topic the resources of literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics. It is a brilliant and humane account of the nature of the 'ontological landscapes' created by story, and how these landscapes create compelling, often conflicting realities. It is an intellectually exciting, beautifully conceived work. -- Jerome Bruner
Thomas G. Pavel is Professor of Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz.
Pavel’s work is an eloquent statement of one of the purposes of
fiction: to allow the reader into a ‘made-up’ world so that the
reader is allowed to invent that world himself… He challenges
formalism, structuralism and textualism to make a case for seeing
fiction, not so much as an aberration of culture, but rather as an
integral, though marginal, phenomenon… An engaging text for
scholars and writers alike.
*Boston Globe*
Fictional Worlds brings powerfully to bear on its topic the
resources of literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics. It is a
brilliant and humane account of the nature of the ‘ontological
landscapes’ created by story, and how these landscapes create
compelling, often conflicting realities. It is an intellectually
exciting, beautifully conceived work.
*Jerome Bruner*
Cogently argued and generously sprinkled with examples from Homer
to Herzog, this book is a welcome beginning toward a critique of
the non-referential demands of structuralism, the hermeneutical
mayhem of many deconstructionists, and the lurking relativism of
extreme reader-response critics.
*Literature Theology*
Pavel's work is an eloquent statement of one of the purposes of
fiction: to allow the reader into a 'made-up' world so that the
reader is allowed to invent that world himself... He challenges
formalism, structuralism and textualism to make a case for seeing
fiction, not so much as an aberration of culture, but rather as an
integral, though marginal, phenomenon... An engaging text for
scholars and writers alike. * Boston Globe *
Fictional Worlds brings powerfully to bear on its topic the
resources of literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics. It is a
brilliant and humane account of the nature of the 'ontological
landscapes' created by story, and how these landscapes create
compelling, often conflicting realities. It is an intellectually
exciting, beautifully conceived work. -- Jerome Bruner
Cogently argued and generously sprinkled with examples from Homer
to Herzog, this book is a welcome beginning toward a
critique of the non-referential demands of structuralism, the
hermeneutical mayhem of many deconstructionists, and the lurking
relativism of extreme reader-response critics. * Literature
Theology *
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