Coincidence and counterfactuality
Subtitle: plotting time and space in narrative fiction
By: Hilary P. Dannenberg.
Series: Frontiers of narrative
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803210936
Subjects: Space and time in literature; Coincidence in literature; Fiction -- Technique; Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing time and space in narrative fiction; title: Cognitive plotting : crossing narrative boundaries and connecting worlds; title: Ontological plotting : narrative as a multiplicity of temporal dimensions; title: Spatial plotting : paths, links, and portals; title: Theorizing coincidence and counterfactuality; title: The coincidence plot; title: Counterfactuals and other alternate narrative worlds; title: Coincidence and counterfactuality in the history of narrative fiction; title: The metamorphoses of the coincidence plot; title: The narrative evolution of counterfactuals.