Fictional thinking
Subtitle: a poetics and rhetoric of fictional creativity in theatre
By: Eli Rozik.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781845193263; 9781845193270
Subjects: Fiction; Drama; Theater -- Philosophy
Description: "This book offers a theory of the archaic mode of fictional thinking and a methodology for the analysis of fictional worlds. It presupposes the mutual independence of the description of a fictional world, in any language or medium, and the described fictional world. Such a world is generated by an autonomous fictional structure, which reflects the spontaneous expectations of the spectator, and thematic specification. A model of this structure is presented, comprising seven layers: personified, mythical, praxical, naive, ironic and aesthetic - and overriding these layers, the fictional experience on the level of relationship between the fictional world and spectator. This experience depends on the spectator's ability to complement such a description with pertinent associations, drawn from shared cultural resources, and psychical mechanisms of response. Explanations and examples are couched in poetic, pragmatic, aesthetic and rhetoric methodologies."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes index.