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Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology
, 2019The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned
Alice Bell, Marie-Laure Ryan
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Possible worlds theory, accessibility relations, and counterfactual historical fiction
Journal of Literary Semantics, 2022Possible Worlds Theory has commonly been invoked to describe fictional worlds and their relationship to the actual world. As an approach to genre, the relationship between fictional worlds and the actual world is also constitutive of specific text types.
R. Raghunath
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Moving Possible World Theory from Logic to Value
Poetics Today, 2013This article presents a tool of literary analysis developed by the author as an alternative to existing possible world theories (PWT). The aim is to create links between the latter’s neutral, descriptive accuracy and more value-laden approaches with an eye to both research and education. Establishing such links demands careful monitoring to prevent the
D. Bormann
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Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
SubStance, 1992In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence ...
Marie-Laure Ryan
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Political science quarterly, 2018
THE ARAB UPRISINGS OF 2011-2012 -popular protests that challenged authoritarian rule across the Middle East and North Africatook the world by surprise. The possibility that the Arab region might finally be loosening the chains of tyranny was electrifying.
E. Bellin
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THE ARAB UPRISINGS OF 2011-2012 -popular protests that challenged authoritarian rule across the Middle East and North Africatook the world by surprise. The possibility that the Arab region might finally be loosening the chains of tyranny was electrifying.
E. Bellin
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The possible worlds theory of visual experience
Inquiry, 2021When we watch movies, or are tricked by a trompe-l'oeil painting, we seem to be visually representing possible worlds; often non-actual possible worlds.
Edward W. Averill, Joseph Gottlieb
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, 2007
Text World Theory is a cognitive model of human discourse processing. It is a highly interdisciplinary approach and is influenced by a range of different fields, including cognitive psychology, possible worlds logic, cognitive linguistics, and stylistics.
J. Gavins
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Text World Theory is a cognitive model of human discourse processing. It is a highly interdisciplinary approach and is influenced by a range of different fields, including cognitive psychology, possible worlds logic, cognitive linguistics, and stylistics.
J. Gavins
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2023
AbstractPossible worlds are widely appealed to in philosophy. At the same time, it is often considered questionable whether there are such entities as possible worlds. Consequently, many proposals exist for reducing possible worlds to entities which may be considered less problematic. Based on the language of propositions and necessity developed in the
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AbstractPossible worlds are widely appealed to in philosophy. At the same time, it is often considered questionable whether there are such entities as possible worlds. Consequently, many proposals exist for reducing possible worlds to entities which may be considered less problematic. Based on the language of propositions and necessity developed in the
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Possible Worlds II: Non‐reductive Theories of Possible Worlds
Philosophy Compass, 2009Abstract It is difficult to wander far in contemporary metaphysics without bumping into talk of possible worlds. And, reference to possible worlds is not confined to metaphysics. It can be found in contemporary epistemology and ethics, and has even made its way into linguistics and decision theory.
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