How to Make Believe
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How to Make Believe

The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts

  1. 370 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

How to Make Believe

The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts

About this book

Die Reihe Narratologia publiziert innovative Monographien und Sammelbände zur modernen Erzähltheorie und zu ihrer fachgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion aus allen philologischen Disziplinen. Sie stellt das erste narratologische Forum dieser Art in Deutschland dar. Neben literarischen Texten stehen u. a. auch das Alltagserzählen, Wort-Bild-Texte, Erzählen im Film und in den neuen Medien sowie das Erzählen in Historiographie, Ethnologie, Medizin und Rechtswissenschaft im Fokus der Reihe.

Die Publikationssprachen der Reihe sind Deutsch und Englisch. Alle Bände werden zweifach begutachtet.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9783110441536
eBook ISBN
9783110443875
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism Theory
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Section 1 – Theory
  4. The Concept of Literary Realism
  5. Thought, Make-Believe and the Opacity of Narrative
  6. Narrative per se and Narratability
  7. Section 2 – Literature and Film
  8. Distance in Fiction
  9. Narration, Representation, Memoir, Truth, and Lies
  10. Truth in Fiction
  11. Destabilizing Reality
  12. The Place for External Considerations in Reading Literary Fiction
  13. Fictional Truth, Principles of Generation, and Interpretation
  14. Deixis in Literary and Film Fiction
  15. Metalepsis and Participation in Games of Make-Believe
  16. ‘I grieve’ as Make-Believe
  17. Section 3 – Theatre and Music
  18. Fictionality and Make-Believe in Drama, Theatre and Opera
  19. Making Meaning in the Theatre: Double Noesis
  20. Impurely Musical Make-Believe
  21. Section 4 – Games
  22. Make-Believe Wickedness vs. Wicked Making-Believe
  23. Agency and Volition in Make-Believe Worlds
  24. Prop Perspective and the Aesthetics of Play
  25. Index
  26. Contact Addresses

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