Fiction updated
Subtitle: theories of fictionality, narratology, and poetics
By: edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu and Walid Hamarneh.
Contributors: Mihailescu, Calin Andrei, 1956-; Hamarneh, Walid, 1952-
Series: Theory/culture; Theory/culture series.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Fictions, Theory of.; Literature -- Philosophy.; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Narration (Rhetoric); Poetics.
Description: Novels, movies, and lies - these are all fictions that provoke with their as ifs and what ifs. In response to the idea that fiction has somehow become an unfashionable topic in contemporary criticism, this volume argues that the question of fiction needs to be updated in the absence of a widely accepted theory of truth.

This collection, dedicated to the noted scholar and literary critic Lubomir Dolezel, covers an extensive number of theoretical and historical issues relevant to our understanding of the status of fictions - literary or not.

Fiction Updated offers approaches to fiction and poetics that, in an imaginary topography of contemporary humanities, dwell at a distance from both the mimetic theory of literature and deconstruction. The contributors introduce new perspectives to the problem of fictionality, or broaden the scope of its applications, by examining the works of such authors as Homer, Casanova, Aristotle, Woolf, Vaihinger, Borges, Kundera, Coetzee, and Bakhtin.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-327).
Some essays are rev. versions of papers presented at a conference entitled Fictions and worlds, held at the University of Toronto, spring, 1990.