Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds

by Lubomír Doležel

Book Overview

"The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands. Literary fiction is probably the most active experimental laboratory of the world-constructing enterprise."--from the author's Preface

The standard contrast between fiction and reality, notes Lubom?r Dolezel, obscures an array of problems that have beset philosophers and literary critics for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080186738X
• ISBN13: 9780801867385
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher