LEADER 05505nam 2200793 450 001 9910813473303321 005 20230912160044.0 010 $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(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(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/bwc486 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671838 035 $a(OCoLC)1382387707 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105101 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254969 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 $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART ONE: PARADOXES""; ""1 The Paradox of the Many: Post-Structuralism and Zeno""; ""Zeno's Paradox of Plurality""; ""Post-Structuralism and the Paradox of Plurality""; ""Derrida and Multiplicity""; ""Different Kinds of Differences?""; ""There and Back""; ""2 The Paradox of the One: Language as Universal Medium""; ""The Matter of Analytical Philosophy""; ""The Force of Continental Philosophy""; ""Syntax in Structuralism and Post-Structuralism""; ""New Historicism and Culture as Universal Medium""; ""The Death of the Code""; ""PART TWO: POSSIBLE WORLDS"" 327 $a""3 Talk of Possible Worlds: Language as Calculus""""One-World Semantics versus Possible-Worlds Semantics""; ""Words and Worlds""; ""What Is Metalanguage?""; ""Baudrillard's Virtual Reality""; ""Kinds of Language Theory""; ""Language as Calculus""; ""4 The Poiesis of Possible Worlds: A Theory of Possibility for Literature""; ""Scepticism about Possible Worlds""; ""The Logical Triviality of This World""; ""Intellectual Models""; ""Modelling Worlds""; ""Possible Worlds a Philosophy?""; ""Relation of Language to Possible Worlds""; ""A Way of Meaning Functions"" 327 $a""The Problem of Logical Omniscience""""Related Theories of Possibility""; ""A Qualified Theory of Possible Worlds for Literature""; ""PART THREE: POIESIS""; ""5 From Models to Metaphors: Possibility, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory""; ""The Critical Heritage""; ""What Do We Mean by Literature?""; ""An Approach to Metaphor""; ""Metaphor as Epistemology""; ""The Varieties of Literary Theory""; ""Articulating Possibility in Poetic History""; ""Models of Literature, Modes of Reading""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Author Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I"" 327 $a""J""""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""z"" 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-$01696103 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813473303321 996 $aPoiesis and possible worlds$94075817 997 $aUNINA