Other Possible Worlds (Theory, Narration, Thought)
Keywords:
Fictions, Possible Worlds, Utopias, Science fiction
Abstract
The issue Other Possible Worlds (Theory, Narration, Thought) aims to investigate fiction and its frontiers, objects of critical and theoretical attention, starting from the central position they occupy in the conceptual, aesthetic, and methodological debate - for the 20th Century as well as at the beginning of the 21st. The boundaries between fiction and non-fiction disclose connections with the invention of possible worlds in literary and artistic texts in general: utopias, eutopias, dystopias, and anti-utopias, whose peculiar strategies make them identifiable in representations and writings. The sheer number of studies and investigations focused on the relationship between fact and fiction in the last decades calls for a multidisciplinary dialogue to deepen the different meanings, messages, and aesthetic forms developed, especially in the literary field.
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Doležel, Lubomír, "Extensional and Intensional Narrative Worlds", Poetics, 8 (1979): 193-211.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(79)90020-2
Doležel, Lubomír, "Truth and Authenticity in Narrative", Poetics Today, 1 (1980): 7-25.
https://doi.org/10.2307/1772407
Doležel, Lubomír, "Kafka's Fictional World", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de litterature compare, 11.1 (1984): 61-83.
Doležel, Lubomír, "Mimesis and Possible Worlds", Poetics Today, 9.3 (1988): 475-496.
https://doi.org/10.2307/1772728
Doležel, Lubomír, Heterocosmica, Fiction and possible worlds, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
https://doi.org/10.56021/9780801857492
Drapeau Vieira Contim Filipe - Motta, Sébastien, "On Modal Knowledge", Philosophia Scientiæ, 16.2 (2012): 3-37.
https://doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.732
Foley, Barbara, "The Documentary Novel and the Problem of Borders", Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, eds. Michael J. Hoffman - Patrick D. Murphy, Durham, Duke University Press, 1996: 392-408.
Gabbay, Dov, Schlechta, Karl, Conditionals and Modularity in General Logics, Springer, Berlin, 2011.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19068-1
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https://doi.org/10.2307/1773076
Hintikka, Jaako, The Intentions of Intentionality and Other New Models for Modalities, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1975.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1865-4
Howell, Robert, "Fictional Objects: How They Are and How They Are Not," Poetics, 8, 1979, 129-177.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(79)90018-4
Hutcheon, Linda, "Beginning to Theorize Postmodernism", Textual Practice, 1, 1987: 10-31.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502368708582005
Hutcheon, Linda, "The Postmodern Problematizing of History", English Studies in Canada, 14.4, 1988: 365-382.
https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.1988.0057
Hutcheon, Linda, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, New York, 1988.
Hutcheon, Linda, "Historiographic Metafiction. Parody and the Intertextuality of History", Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction, eds. P. O'Donnell - Robert Davis, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989: 3-32.
Hutcheon, Linda, The Politics of Postmodernism, London, Routledge, 1989.
James, Allison - Kubo, Akihiro - Lavocat, Francçoise, Can Fiction Change the World?, Legenda, Cambridge 2023.
https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.667666
Kripke, Saul, "Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic", Acta Philosophica Fennica, 16, 1963: 83-94.
Kripke, Saul, Naming and Necessity, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1980.
Lavocat, Françoise, "L'impossibilité des mondes possibles de la fiction", Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, 123.2 (2013): 113-129.
https://doi.org/10.25162/zfsl-2013-0004
Lavocat, Françoise, Fait et fiction, Paris, Seuil, 2016.
Lewis, David K., On the Plurality of Worlds, Malden MA, Wiley-Blackwell, 1986.
Napolitano, Michele, Utopia, Roma, Inschibboleth, 2022.
Parsons, Terence, Nonexistent objects, New Haven/London, 1980.
Pavel, Thomas G., "'Possible Worlds' in Literary Semantics", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 34.2 (1975): 165-176
https://doi.org/10.1111/1540_6245.jaac34.2.0165
Pavel, Thomas, Fictional Worlds, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1986.
Plantinga, Alvin, "Actualism and Possible Worlds", Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality, ed. Alvin Plantinga - Matthew Davidson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003: 103-121. https://doi.org/10.1093/0195103769.003.0006.
https://doi.org/10.1093/0195103769.003.0006
Prendergast, Christopher, The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Rembowska-Płuciennik, Magdalena, "Enactive, Interactive, Social-New Contexts for Reading Second-Person Narration", Narrative, 30.1 (2022): 67-84.
https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2022.0003
Ronen, Ruth, Possible Worlds in Literary Theory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597480
Ryan, Marie-Laure, "Logique culturelle de la métalepse, ou la métalepse dans tous ses états", Métalepses. Entorses au pacte de la représentation, eds. John Pier - Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Paris, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2005: 201-224.
Ryan, Marie-Laure, "Possible Worlds", The Living Handbook of Narratology, eds. Peter Hühn et al., 27 September 2013, https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/node/54.html.
Schaeffer, Jean-Marie, Pourquoi la fiction ?, Paris, Seuil, 1999.
Schweighauser, Philipp, "Antifiction Fictions", Early American Literature, 56.3 (2021): 731-754.
https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2021.0065
Searle, John, "The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse.", New Literary History, 6 (1975): 319-332.
https://doi.org/10.2307/468422
Suvin, Darko, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre, Yale University Press, 1979.
Suvin, Darko, "Locus, Horizon, and Orientation: The Concept of Possible Worlds as a Key to Utopian Studies", Utopian Studies, vol. 1.2 (1990): 69-83.
Tooley, Michael, "The Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals", The Journal of Philosophy, 100.7 (2003): 371-377.
https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2003100710
Walsh, Richard, "Fictionality and Mimesis: Between Narrativity and Fictional Worlds", Narrative, 11.1 (2003): 110-121.
https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2003.0004
Walter, Sven, "Zombies, Dualismus Und Physikalismus", Zeitschrift Für Philosophische Forschung, 65.2 (2011): 241-254.
https://doi.org/10.3196/004433011796574402
Waugh, P., Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction, London, Methuen, 1984.
https://doi.org/10.2307/1771928
White, Hayden, "The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory", History and Theory, 23.1 (1984): 1-33.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2504969
White, Hayden, "Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Causation and Modernist Historicism", Figurative Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999: 87-100.
White, Hayden, "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact", Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames, ed. Brian Richardson, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2002: 191-210.
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2024-05-30
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Del Zoppo, P. (2024). Other Possible Worlds (Theory, Narration, Thought). Between, 14(27), i-xv. Retrieved from https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/6281
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