UID:
edocfu_9958354040902883
Format:
1 online resource(xi,339p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9783110303209
Content:
In today’s world, fiction seems to be present everywhere, not only in traditional media such as books or movies, but on the web, in computer games or virtual environments.This book gathers twenty-three scholars from ten countries with the aim to explore the idea and the use of fiction in different cultures. It covers a broad field of interests, from classical literature, artand philosophy to modern media.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Chinese Theories and Concepts of Fiction and the Issue of Transcultural Theories and Concepts of Fiction /
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Literature as a Vehicle for the Dao: Changing Perspectives of Fiction and Truth in Chinese Literature /
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Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji: Fate and Fiction /
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The Fiction of the Image /
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Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms Behind Literary Fiction /
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Photons of the Human Mind: The Fiction of Personal Identity /
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Interaction Between the Reader, the Critic and the Author: The Qing Dramatist Hong Sheng’s Historical Play Changshengdian and Wu Yiyi’s Commentary /
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Performing Life and Live Theatre: Fiction in Popular Performances /
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Diagnosing Fiction: From Plato to Borges /
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Classical Persian Literature: Fiction, Didactics or Intuitive Truth? /
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Historicity and Fictionality in Medieval Narrative /
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How the West was Won by Fiction: The Appearance of Fictional Narrative and Leisurely Reading in Western Literature (11th and 12th century) /
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Toward a Transcultural Poetics of Fiction: The Fusion of Narrative Visions in Chinese and Western Fiction Studies /
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General Beliefs from Fiction /
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Historical Fiction: Experiencing the Past, Reflecting History /
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Unsettling Fictions: Generic Instability and Colonial Time /
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Whose Magic? Whose Realism? Reflections on Magical Realism in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road /
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Confessions of the Hydra: Variations on the Concept of Fiction in Latin America /
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Fiction in Global Contexts: Translation, the Universal Language of Literature /
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Afterword: Fiction as a Transcultural Entity /
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List of Contributors --
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Index of Names.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110303124
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110303216
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110303209
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110303209
