The Borders of Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Pavel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772153 |
| OpenAlex | W2312648552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
fiction. Claiming that a normative stand is detrimental to the understanding of fictional activities, I will next argue that the distinction between fiction and actuality is but a particular case of a more general two-level ontological model, used notably by mythical thinking. It will be finally submitted that the gradual detachment of fiction from truth is a historical process, in the course of which various types of fictional territories and borders arise, each entertaining its own kind of relation to the actual world
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| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 2024 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |