True Lies Worldwide

Fictionality in Global Contexts

Anders Cullhed, Lena Rydholm, Anders Cullhed, Lena Rydholm

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110369465
• Subtopic: Feminist Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

People of all times and in all cultures have produced and consumed fiction in a variety of forms, not only for entertainment, but also to spread knowledge, religious or political beliefs. Furthermore, fiction has taken part in reflecting and shaping the cultural identity of communities as well as the identity of individuals. This volume aims to explore the concept and the use of fiction from different epochs, in different cultures and in different forms, both ancient and more recent. It covers a broad field of interests, from ancient literature, art, philosophy and theater to Bollywood productions, television series and modern electronic media. Twenty-three scholars from ten countries and from different areas and fields of interests in the Humanities assembled in Stockholm on a conference in August 2012 to exchange views on "Fiction in Global Contexts". This volume presents the results of their discussions. It contains fresh perspectives on issues and topics such as:

• the nature of fiction
• fiction and its relationship to "truth"
• the demand for and the function and uses of fiction
• the development of fiction from ancient to modern times
• different forms of fiction
• fiction in social contexts or in a gender perspective

Index of Names

Abelard, Peter 1, 2, 3

Adcock, Fleur 1

Adhikari, Madhumalati 1

Adorno, Theodor 1

Ailly, Pierre d’ 1

Akert, Robin M. 1

Alain of Lille 1

Alberti, Rafael 1

Algasel see Ghazali, Abu Hamed al-

Allen, Woody 1

Alstrum, James J. 1

An Lushan 1, 2, 3

Anderson, Benedict 1

Andrade, Olímpio de Souza 1

Apuleius 1

Aranha, Graça 1

Aravamudan, Srinivas 1

Ariosto 1

Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Ariwara Narihira 1

Aronson, Elliot 1

Arping, Åsa 1

Assis, Machado de 1

‘Attar, Farid od-din 1

Auerbach, Erich 1

Augoustinos, Martha 1

Augustine, Saint 1

Ba Jin 1, 2, 3

Bai Juyi 1, 2

Bai Letian see Bai Juyi

Bai Pu 1, 2

Bailis, Daniel S. 1

Balzac, Honoré de 1

Ban Gu 1, 2

Barchiesi, Alessandro 1

Barks, Coleman 1

Barnstone, Willis 1

Barthes, Roland 1

Baudry of Bourgueil 1

Bauman, Zygmunt 1

Beck, Ulrich 1, 2

Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth 1

Becker, Howard S. 1

Beckett, Samuel 1

Beda, Saint 1

Bei Dao 1

Berg, Lars-Erik 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Bergman, Pär 1

Bernhard, Thomas 1

Bierl, Anton 1

Birch, Cyril 1

Blake, William 1, 2

Blanchot, Maurice 1

Bloom, Harold 1

Blumenberg, Hans 1

Bodel, Jean 1

Boehmer, Elleke 1

Bond, Gerald A. 1

Bonnefoy, Claude 1

Borges, Jorge Luis x, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Bourdieu, Pierre 1

Boutemy, André 1

Bowers, Maggie Ann 1

Bowles, Samuel 1

Boyer, Blanche 1

Branden, Nathaniel 1

Brecht, Bertolt 1, 2

Brehm, Sharon H. 1

Brock, T. C. 1

Brown, Roger 1

Brownlee, Kevin 1

Bruijn, Johannes T. P. de 1

Buddha 1

Bulst, Walther 1, 2

Burns, Susan L. 1,2

Caddeau, Patrick W. 1, 2

Callahan, William A. 1

Cameron, J. M. 1

Campany, Robert Ford 1

Caraher, Brian G. 1, 2

Carlshamre, Staffan 1

Cervantes, Miguel de 1

Chang Weiping 1

Chariton 1

Chatman, Seymour 1

Chen Duxiu 1

Chen Hong 1

Chen Meilin 1

Chen Wannai 1

Cheng, Fangwu 1

Chōken 1

Chrétien de Troyes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Chrisman, Laura 1

Chu Seng 1

Cicero 1

Coetzee, J. M. 1, 2

Cohn, Dorrit 1, 2, 3, 4

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1

Columbus, Christopher 1, 2

Confucius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Converse, Philip E. 1

Cook, Karen S. 1

Cooley, Charles H. 1, 2

Cooper, Brenda 1, 2, 3

Coppola, Carlo 1, 2

Crichton, Michael 1, 2

Cuddon, J. A. A. 1, 2, 3, 4

Culler, Jonathan 1, 2

Cullhed, Anders 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Currie, Gregory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9

Curtius Rufus 1

da Cunha, Euclides 1, 2

Dällenbach, Lucien 1,

Darwin, Charles 1, 2, 3.

Davies, David 1

Defoe, Daniel 1

Demos, John 1

Dewey, John 1

DeWoskin, Kenneth 1

D’haen, Theo L. 1

Dickens, Charles 1

Diderot, Dennis 1

Didi-Huberman, Georges 1

Doležel, Lubomír 1, 2

Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena 1

Dronke, Peter 1

Du Fu 1

Dumas, Alexandre (fils) 1

Dumas, Alexandre (père) 1

Eagleton, Terry 1

Easterling, Patricia E. 1

Eco, Umberto 1

Eliot, T. S. 1

Eliot, George 1

Emmerich, Michael 1

Empedocles 1

Engdahl, Horace 1

Epstein, Maram 1

Erdman, David 1

Erikson, Erik 1

Ernout, Alfred 1

Ernst, Ulrich 1

Fabian, Johannes 1

Fang Xuanling 1

Faris, Wendy B. 1–2

Faulkner, William 1

Fay, Brian 1

Feng Baoshan 1

Feng Menglong 1

Ferdousi 1

Fernandes, Raúl C. Gouveia 1

Fine, Gary Alan 1

Finkelberg, Margalit 1

Fleming, Clas 1, 2, 3

Fleming, Johan 1

Fludernik, Monika 1

Foucault, Michel 1, 2, 3, 4

Fowler, Roger 1

Franciscono, Marcel 1

Fraser, Robert 1f.

Freud, Sigmund 1

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Here, There – and Everywhere? Eastern examples
• Fictional Spaces: Image, Language & Identity
• Live Fiction: Play & Performances
• Fiction Past and Present: Historical Perspectives
• Telling Tales: Narratology & Fictionality
• The Frontiers of Fiction: Recent Developments
• Coda: Fiction, Translation & Interaction
• Afterword: Fiction as a Transcultural Entity
• List of Contributors
• Index of Names