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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-10 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a liter
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Authors: Lubomír Doležel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12-26 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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"The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands. Literary
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History
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Authors: Lubomír Doležel
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With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomír Doležel reexamines the claim—made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White—that "
Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology
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The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the
The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions
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Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and conte