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Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Riyukta Raghunath
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-10 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a liter
Heterocosmica
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Lubomír Doležel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12-26 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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"The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands. Literary
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Lubomír Doležel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-05 - Publisher: JHU Press

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With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomír Doležel reexamines the claim—made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White—that "
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Marie-Laure Ryan
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the stud
Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Alice Bell
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the