Published: 2015-01-01

How Can We Reach Fictional Worlds?

Lubomír Doležel

Website: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubom%C3%ADr_Dole%C5%BEel

Abstract

The article discussess the notion of fictionality and the main problems that arise from attempting to provide its clear-cut definition. It also presents multiple exclusionary perspectives that are a part of most debates on the matter. In the course of his meta-analysis, the author gives an in-depth description of the approaches by the two main academic schools of thought, namely literary narratology and analytical philosophy, claiming the exclusive right to define fictionality by placing it in their respective fields of study. The juxtapositional structure of the article is reflected in its six subchapters, in which the author familiarises the reader with contemporary research in order to provide a synthesis of the seemingly opposing viewpoints by highlighting conceptual commongrounds the two philosophies share.

Translated from Czech by Izabela Mroczek.

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Doležel, L. (2015). How Can We Reach Fictional Worlds?. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (30). Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/2793

ER(R)GO nr 30 (1/2015) - czech literary theory (guest edited by Libor Martinek)

No. 30 (2015)
Published: 2015-01-01


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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