Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage - Couverture rigide

Doležel, Lubomír

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801894638 ISBN 13 : 9780801894633

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

Synopsis

With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomír Dolezel reexamines the claim--made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White--that "there is no fundamental distinction between fiction and history."

Dolezel rejects this assertion and demonstrates how literary and discourse theory can help the historian to restate the difference between fiction and history. He challenges scholars to reassess the postmodern viewpoint by reintroducing the idea of possible worlds. Possible-worlds semantics reveals that possible worlds of fiction and possible worlds of history differ in their origins, cultural functions, and structural and semantic features. Dolezel's book is the first systematic application of this idea to the theory and philosophy of history.

Possible Worlds of Fiction and History is the crowning work of one of literary theory's most engaged thinkers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lubomír Dolezel is professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Toronto and author of Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801894638
• ISBN 13: 9780801894633
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 184
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• Personne responsable: non disponible