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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Preface; Here, There -- and Everywhere? Eastern examples; Chinese Theories and Concepts of Fiction and the Issue of Transcultural Theories and Concepts of Fiction; Literature as a Vehicle for the Dao: Changing Perspectives of Fiction and Truth in Chinese Literature; Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji: Fate and Fiction; Fictional Spaces: Image, Language & Identity; The Fiction of the Image; Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms Behind Literary Fiction; Photons of the Human Mind: The Fiction of Personal Identity; Live Fiction: Play & Performances. |
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Interaction Between the Reader, the Critic and the Author: The Qing Dramatist Hong Sheng's Historical Play Changshengdian and Wu Yiyi's CommentaryPerforming Life and Live Theatre: Fiction in Popular Performances; Fiction Past and Present: Historical Perspectives; Diagnosing Fiction: From Plato to Borges; Classical Persian Literature: Fiction, Didactics or Intuitive Truth?; Historicity and Fictionality in Medieval Narrative; How the West was Won by Fiction: The Appearance of Fictional Narrative and Leisurely Reading in Western Literature (11th and 12th century). |
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Telling Tales: Narratology & FictionalityToward a Transcultural Poetics of Fiction: The Fusion of Narrative Visions in Chinese and Western Fiction Studies; General Beliefs from Fiction; Historical Fiction: Experiencing the Past, Reflecting History; The Frontiers of Fiction: Recent Developments; Unsettling Fictions: Generic Instability and Colonial Time; Whose Magic? Whose Realism? Reflections on Magical Realism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road; Confessions of the Hydra: Variations on the Concept of Fiction in Latin America; Coda: Fiction, Translation & Interaction. |
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Fiction in Global Contexts: Translation, the Universal Language of LiteratureAfterword: Fiction as a Transcultural Entity; List of Contributors; Index of Names. |
| Summary |
In today's world, fiction seems to be present everywhere, not only in traditional media such as books or movies, but on the web, in computer games or virtual environments. This book gathers twenty-three scholars from ten countries with the aim to explore the idea and the use of fiction in different cultures. It covers a broad field of interests, from classical literature, artand philosophy to modern media. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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Literature and society -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Rydholm, Lena.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cullhed, Anders. True Lies Worldwide : Fictionality in Global Contexts. Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2014 9783110303124 |
| ISBN |
311036946X |
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9783110303209 |
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3110303205 |
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9783110369465 (electronic book) |
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9783110303124 |
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3110303124 |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9783110303209 |
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