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...Simona Bartolotta Abstract Literary cognitivism can be broadly defined as the claim that literary texts can be a source of knowledge. This article proposes the concept of aimless argumentativity to denote a paradoxical epistemic activity performed by fictional narratives. This concept...

... experience constructed by the narrative. The fictional accounts of catastrophe will be characterized as such: fiction allows the disaster to be experienced in a paradoxical relation to time, through the point of view of an “impossible witness.” © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013...

... of an engagement with narrative and to recent discussions of the so-called paradox of fiction. To explore in more concrete terms the effect of reading Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship , the article then turns to George Eliot's response in Daniel Deronda (1876). Goethe's novel appeals to the bodies of its...

... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 1978 ‘‘Truth in Fiction American Philosophical Quarterly 15: 37–46. 1986a On the Plurality of Worlds (Oxford: Blackwell). 1986b ‘‘The Paradoxes of Time Travel in Philosophical Papers, 2:67–80 (New York: Oxford University Press). 2004 ‘‘How Many Lives...

...Suzanne Keen Pursuing my earlier theory of strategic narrative empathy, this essay shows Thomas Hardy's bounded strategic empathy for his fictional creations, Wessex countrymen and women; his ambassadorial strategic empathy for animals and select members of despised outgroups; and his broadcast...

...Maria Mäkelä; Merja Polvinen Any new narratological theory faces the test of being applicable to much-analyzed classics of prose fiction and of yielding new insights into narratives that have served as textbook examples of narrative strategies for decades. This essay is a constructed dialogue...

... by Benjamin Sher (Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive). Wilson, Barbara 1990 GaudíAfternoon (Seattle: Seal). Winks, Robin W., ed. 1988 Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (Woodstock, VT: Foul Play). Paradoxes vs. Contradictions D. S...

... status of the fictional world of such narratives and comments on the ways in which they are represented and misrepresented in literary criticism and narrative theory are also set forth. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2025 fictional worlds time...

... of virtually all the above-mentioned texts is the way in which the narratives attempt to create a paradoxical kind of agency . Overall, the representation of agency in fiction denotes “the capacity of an entity to cause events” (Abbott 2021 : 243). The texts in question, however, create a fantastic form...

... -41. Walton, Kendall L. 1994 “Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality,” Proceedings of Mind Supplementary 68 : 26 -50. The Paradox of Perfection Joshua Landy French and Italian, Stanford Thomas G. Pavel, La pensée du roman. Paris: Gallimard, 2003. 412 pp. If the ideal resides...

... ineluctably to the fabula itself, and remains fully present in all its potentially paradoxical provocation.” This last type of narrative can be seen as belonging to a kind of time-travel fiction rooted in “many-worlds” interpretations of quantum mechanics and multiverse physics, described by Wittenberg...

... that every woman is The Woman I Never Married. So why not call her Marie, that was my thinking. Late in the novel the fictional Yu's decision to try to reengage with his life and to stop being so obsessed by loss and the past is described by reference to this same philosophical paradox, promising...

... greater emphasis to the idea that, because characters are “nobodies,” the fictionality of the new genre liberates its reader from the pursuit of such thematizing. This fictionality leads to such paradoxes of character as the following: it is undeniably textual yet unable to be reduced to its...

... of inspiration, but his very life is also given over to Borges's authorship, to the making of his fictions. He records, “I live, I allow myself to live, so that Borges can spin out his literature, and that literature is my justification” (324). Yet a paradox ensues, for even as he gives his life over to Borges...

... Bessière argues that, rather than being transgressive, metalepsis is inherent to narrative fiction and its display of the past as present. Christine Baron traces some of the ways in which metalep- ses confront reality and the paradoxes and possibilities of fiction. Philippe 628 Poetics Today 27:3...

...), and Frederik Pohl s Schematic Man (1969), which all use logical paradoxes to question the potential of artificial intelli- gence, introduce a more serious and persistent science-fiction moral: that the ability to parse such paradoxes can serve as a dividing line between human and machine. Other texts like...

... for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 cultural memory dystopian fiction future utopia References Assmann Jan 2008 “Communicative and Cultural Memory,” in Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook , edited by Erll Astrid Nünning Ansgar , 109...

... invented fictional lovers, or selected a historical romance less morally problematic or marred by inevita- ble, offstage tragedy, why did Monteverdi and Busenello choose this story to tell?4 The goal seems analogous to that of the paradoxical encomium described above: only by attempting a sympathetic...

... , the initial discussion of Nelson Goodman's paradox of induction (the “grue” paradox) demonstrates, on the one hand, the utility of the future-in-the-past of moment t , and, on the other hand, how this paradox exercises an abolition of time: all composition is now . The ensuing discussion of condensation...

... and interest for “intransitive” politics, as best expressed by bomb-throwing anarchist terrorism. The paradoxical nature of Céline’s both democratic and antidemocratic fiction should probably be seen in the light of these ambiguities, and Roussin might have underlined more force- fully...