LEADER 03983nam 2200709 450 001 9910455869003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-02270-9 010 $a9786612022708 010 $a1-4426-7857-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442678576 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004283 035 $a(OCoLC)244768230 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218874 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000306256 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11274819 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306256 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10298647 035 $a(PQKB)10706665 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600280 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254969 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671838 035 $a(DE-B1597)464757 035 $a(OCoLC)1013942007 035 $a(OCoLC)944177667 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442678576 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671838 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257528 035 $a(OCoLC)958572114 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004283 100 $a20160922h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPoiesis and possible worlds $ea study in modality and literary theory /$fThomas L. Martin 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-3641-4 311 $a0-8020-0949-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPart One: Paradoxes -- $tChapter One. The Paradox of the Many: Post-Structuralism and Zeno -- $tChapter Two. The Paradox of the One: Language as Universal Medium -- $tPart Two: Possible Worlds -- $tChapter Three. Talk of Possible Worlds; Language as Calculus -- $tChapter Four. The Poiesis of Possible Worlds; A Theory of Possibility for Literature -- $tPart Three: Poiesis -- $tChapter Five. From Models to Metaphors; Possibility, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tAuthor Index 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aSemantics (Philosophy) 606 $aPossibility 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSemantics (Philosophy) 615 0$aPossibility. 676 $a801 700 $aMartin$b Thomas L.$f1960-$01039308 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455869003321 996 $aPoiesis and possible worlds$92461444 997 $aUNINA