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1 online resource |
| Series |
Narratologia ; v. 54 |
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Narratologia.
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| Contents |
Introduction ; 1 Imaginative World-Making ; 1.1 Imagine That & ; 1.2 Imagination in the Subjunctive Mood: From Mediation to Creation ; 1.3 Imagination as a Shared Frame of Mind ; 1.4 Bridging the Study of Imagination and Popular Imagination ; 1.5 Literary Imagination |
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2 The Imaginative Uses of Mimesis 2.1 Mimesis as a Basis for Literature ; 2.2 The Range of Mimesis: Literary Imagination as Real and Fantastic ; 2.3 On the Interrelation between Mimesis and Genre ; 3 Kinds of Unreliability ; 3.1 From Mimesis to Deception |
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3.2 Basic Features of Unreliability and How We Learn Them 3.3 Narratorial and Focal Unreliability: A Scale of Intentionality ; 3.4 Expositional and Combined: Exposition as Manipulation ; 4 The Shaping of Literary Worlds ; 4.1 The Imaginative Frame of Literary Imagination |
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4.2 Literary World-Making: The Basics 4.3 Modes and Themes ; 4.4 Examples of Literary World-Making ; 5 Key Combinations: Figures and Narratives ; 5.1 Figures versus Narratives, Figures into Narratives ; 5.2 From Metaphor to Narrative to Allegory ; 5.3 Extended Metaphors in Novels |
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6 Other Imaginative Inflections 6.1 Indirection in Fiction and Drama ; 6.2 Hypothetical Action in Poetry ; 6.3 Genres and Text Types, Their Hierarchies and Blends ; 7 How Literary Worlds Shape Us ; 7.1 Imagined Selves and Communities in Fiction and Beyond |
| Summary |
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped studies a wide variety of literature across cultures and ages. The main aim is to show that literature all over the world has for millennia employed an array of related themes and techniques. By its broad scope and detailed analysis, this volume offers the first extensive comparative account of the makings of literary worlds |
| Analysis |
Literary worlds |
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comparative poetics |
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literary imagination |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Comparative literature -- Themes, motives
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Imagination
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Literatur
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017001326 |
| ISBN |
9783110486315 |
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3110486318 |
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9783110484939 |
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3110484935 |
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9783110486322 |
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3110486326 |
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9783110611076 |
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3110611074 |
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