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fictional thinking a poetics and rhetoric of fictional creativity in theatre
this book offers a theory of the archaic mode of fictional thinking and a methodology for the analysis of fictional worlds . it presupposes the mutual independence of the description of a fictional world in any language or medium and the described fictional world . such a world is generated by an autonomous fictional structure which reflects the spontaneous expectations of the spectator and thematic specification . a model of this structure is presented comprising seven layers personified mythical praxical naive ironic aesthetic and the fictional experience on the level of relationship between the fictional world and spectator . the focus throughout is on theatre fictional worlds which by their nature exhibit the most complex fictional thoughts that the human brain can generate . the theoretical insights gained for theater assumedly apply to descriptions of such worlds in any language or medium and more than a hundred fictional worlds created during 2 500 years of theater recorded history are analyzed .
hardcover sussex academic press 2009 isbn13 9781845193263 isbn10 1845193261
abridged n isbn 13 9781845193263 number in series 1 number of pages 324 publisher sussex academic press release date 62135769600000