Fictionality and Infrastructure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Punday (Mississippi State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 207-225 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-11672643 |
| OpenAlex | W4411488524 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Recent narrative theory has generally treated fictionality as a feature of writing that serves a rhetorical, communicative purpose. This article argues for more attention to the continuities between literary and nonliterary fictionality, such as we encounter in law, contracts, and credit. Drawing on Charles Yu's novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, it explores Clifford Siskin's theory of novelism and work on fictionality and economic systems in the eighteenth century to show how the novel navigates the space between literary and "infrastructural" fictionality
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Physics · Rhetorical question · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Law in Society and Culture · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |