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UNINA9910828916103321 |
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Autore |
Alward Peter Wallace <1964-> |
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Titolo |
Empty revelations : an essay on talk about, and attitudes toward fiction / / Peter Alward |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-7735-4038-5 |
1-283-62086-3 |
9786613933317 |
0-7735-8721-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Discourse analysis, Narrative |
Discourse analysis, Literary |
Fiction - Technique |
Fiction - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part one : Two Authors and Readers - Negative --1 Compositional Speech Acts -- 2 Reader Engagement -- Part Two : Authors and Readers - Positive -- 3 Word-Sculpture -- 4 Narrative Informants - Part Three : Fictional Names and Fictional Talk -- 5 Empty Revelations -- 6 Fictional Discourse - Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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What mysteries lie at the heart of fiction's power to enchant and engage the mind? Empty Revelations considers a number of philosophical problems that fiction raises, including the primary issue of how we can think and talk about things that do not exist. Peter Alward covers thought-provoking terrain, exploring fictional truth, the experience of being "caught up" in a story, and the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. At the centre of Alward's argument is a figure known as the "narrative informant" who mediates the reader's encounter with fictional events through - sometimes unreliable - reporting. Developing a theory in which the author is a sculptor who constructs works of fiction out of words, Alward demonstrates that much of the confusion about fiction stems from a failure to properly distinguish between |
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