Imaginative Resistance and Modal Knowledge [PDF]
Readers of fictions sometimes resist taking certain kinds of claims to be true according to those fictions, even when they appear explicitly or follow from applying ordinary principles of interpretation. This "imaginative resistance" is often taken to be
Nolan, Daniel
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Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction” [PDF]
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Positioning Daniel Defoe's Non-Fiction: Form, Function, Genre [PDF]
This volume analyses the form, structure and genre of a selection of non-fictional works by Daniel Defoe. Directing our scholarly gaze away from the much studied novels, the essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display in Defoe’s better known non-fictional texts, such as The Shortest Way with the Dissenters and A Tour ...
Mäkikalli, Aino, Mueller, Andreas K. E.
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Transcendental metagenre travelers: a background of the reception of Cervantes’ Don Quixote in Spain and France [PDF]
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Duche, Veronique, Perez De Leon, Vicente
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Eulogizing Realism : Documentary Chronotopes in Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction [PDF]
In this contribution we try to probe the generic chronotope of realism, which, judging from its astonishing productivity in the nineteenth century and the profound impact it has had on literary evolution and theory ever since, can be designated nothing ...
Borghart, Pieter, Dobbeleer, Michel De
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Consciousness Duplication And Our Capacity To Learn From Literary Fictions [PDF]
Many of us share a strong intuition that fictional literature possesses cognitive value in the sense that it has the capacity to expand and/or clarify our knowledge or understanding of the world.
Mitchell, Allison
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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]
This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope : Reflections, Applications, Perspectives [PDF]
The aim of this introductory article [to the volume of the same title], firstly, is to recapitulate the basic principles of Bakhtin’s initial theory as formulated in “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes toward a Historical Poetics ...
Bemong, Nele, Borghart, Pieter
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Truth, Lies, and Copyright [PDF]
Fake news may be trending right now, but fake news is not the only source of fake facts that we consume. We encounter fake facts every day in the historical or biographical books we read, the movies we watch, the maps we study, the tele-phone directories
Smith, Cathay Y. N.
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Underdogs and superheroes: Designing for new players in public space [PDF]
We are exploring methods for participatory and public involvement of new 'players' in the design space. Underdogs & Superheroes involves a game-based methodology – a series of creative activities or games – in order to engage people experientially ...
Jacobs, M., Mazé, Ramia
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