Style articles from September 2006

Style archives from September 2006

Czech poetics today: tradition and renewal.
September 22, 2006... Contemporary Western literary theory is severely fragmented. Even though we can discern contours of some groupings based on theoretical affinities or cultural traditions, the individualism of personalities prevails over communal assumptions or...

Are fictional worlds really possible? A short contribution to their semantics.
September 22, 2006... Literary theoreticians refer to fictional (possible) worlds in order to grasp products of a mental creation and re-creation, products that are based on the acts of creating and perceiving literary works. These theoreticians are notorious for...

Mimesis and the subject in the light of the cognitive impulse and the theory of fictional worlds.
September 22, 2006... "What are you still doing here?" Her tone wasn't harsh, but it wasn't kindly, either; Sylvie was indignant. "Where should I be?" Irena asked. "Home!" "You mean this isn't my home anymore?" Milan Kundera's novel Ignorance...

Types of worlds: on relations between the Prague School and the theory of fictional worlds.
September 22, 2006... Any investigation into the ontological status of a literary work can result in two different ways of interpreting the work: on the one hand, it can be described as an imitation, as a spiritual reproduction of reality, as a fictional...

The theory of fictional worlds, aesthetic function, and the future of literary history.
September 22, 2006... From the point of view of literary history, theoretical systems have importance only if they become a necessary part of a cognitive model. Within this model's framework the systems can be used as analytic or synthetic tools that correspond to...

Representation of being and existence in an epistemically limited fictional world.
September 22, 2006... In the vast body of Euro-American fictional texts produced in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the focus of attention is the protagonist, or the narrator, questioning the conditionality of his or her personal existence as well as...

"Discovering" the Fictional Worlds of lyric poetry.
September 22, 2006... 1. The Subject as the Center of a Fictional World Not trying, at least for the moment, to discriminate various hierarchical levels, functions, and communication situations of the agents who act simultaneously in the work of verbal art, I...

Reading prague: narrative domains of the image of the city in fiction.
September 22, 2006... The city in the actual world is an artificial, man-made structure. It is based on radical reconstruction of the natural world that brings into existence certain spatial settings and arbitrary rules that model the behavior of its inhabitants and...

From otherworldliness and a two-world scheme to "Heterocosmica": a visit to a museum with Cortazar and Nabokov.
September 22, 2006... 1. Introduction: Disturbing the Peace of the Represented World Apart from individual Czech attempts to expand the scope of the possible-worlds theory of fiction (especially as presented in Lubomir Dolezel's Heterocosmica) by developing...

How many (different) kinds of fictional worlds are there?
September 22, 2006... Since 1989 many literary theoretical books connected with the heritage of the so-called Prague School have been published in the Czech Republic. Also, books we could consider primary sources of Czech structuralism, such as Jan Mukarovsky's...

Books received.(Brief article)(List)
September 22, 2006... Ades, Dawn, ed. The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 320 pp. Burnard, Lou, Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe, and John Unsworth, eds. Electronic Textual Editing. New York: Modern Language Association...