03983nam 2200709 450 991045586900332120200520144314.01-282-02270-997866120227081-4426-7857-710.3138/9781442678576(CKB)2420000000004283(OCoLC)244768230(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218874(SSID)ssj0000306256(PQKBManifestationID)11274819(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306256(PQKBWorkID)10298647(PQKB)10706665(CaBNvSL)thg00600280 (MiAaPQ)EBC3254969(MiAaPQ)EBC4671838(DE-B1597)464757(OCoLC)1013942007(OCoLC)944177667(DE-B1597)9781442678576(Au-PeEL)EBL4671838(CaPaEBR)ebr11257528(OCoLC)958572114(EXLCZ)99242000000000428320160922h20042004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPoiesis and possible worlds a study in modality and literary theory /Thomas L. MartinToronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2004.©20041 online resource (209 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-3641-4 0-8020-0949-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Paradoxes -- Chapter One. The Paradox of the Many: Post-Structuralism and Zeno -- Chapter Two. The Paradox of the One: Language as Universal Medium -- Part Two: Possible Worlds -- Chapter Three. Talk of Possible Worlds; Language as Calculus -- Chapter Four. The Poiesis of Possible Worlds; A Theory of Possibility for Literature -- Part Three: Poiesis -- Chapter Five. From Models to Metaphors; Possibility, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Author IndexIn Poiesis and Possible Worlds, Thomas L. Martin makes a highly focused intervention in the debate about poststructuralist and postmodern theorizing and offers a philosophical approach to some of the controversial tenets of recent theorists. The result is an important addition to the existing literature on the usefulness of possible worlds theory for literature.Martin argues that literary studies remain mired in the anomalies of a linguistic methodology derived from early twentieth-century language philosophy, a view challenged not only by theoretical physics, but also by compelling advances in philosophic semantics. The possible-worlds theory of this book moves beyond the understanding of language as an inescapable medium and toward a view of language as calculus, a theoretical outlook that provides richer means to model a wide range of literary worlds. These possible-worlds insights apply to several fundamental issues in literary and critical theory: not to a theory of fiction as other possible-worlds theorists have suggested, but at a lower level to the definition of literature, to verbal figuration in the theory of metaphor, and to models of reading.Well written and argued, Poiesis and Possible World will be of particular interest to literary critics, aestheticians, and philosophers of language.LiteraturePhilosophySemantics (Philosophy)PossibilityElectronic books.LiteraturePhilosophy.Semantics (Philosophy)Possibility.801Martin Thomas L.1960-1039308MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455869003321Poiesis and possible worlds2461444UNINA