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What mysteries lie at the heart of fiction's power to enchant and engage the mind? Empty Revelations considers a number of philosophical problems that fiction raises, including the primary issue of how we can think and talk about things that do not exist. Peter Alward covers thought-provoking terrain, exploring fictional truth, the experience of being "caught up" in a story, and the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. At the centre of Alward's argument is a figure known as the "narrative informant" who mediates the reader's encounter with fictional events through - sometimes unreliable - reporting. Developing a theory in which the author is a sculptor who constructs works of fiction out of words, Alward demonstrates that much of the confusion about fiction stems from a failure to properly distinguish between writing fiction and telling stories. Combining clarity, philosophical sophistication, ingenuity, and originality, Empty Revelations is a rewarding read for both scholars of philosophy and anyone interested in the complex ways that fiction works.

Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Fiction --- Fiction writing --- Metafiction --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Technique. --- History and criticism.

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The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other's similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues apply the communicational perspective to the past four centuries of literary activity in English. Paying detailed attention to texts - both canonical and non-canonical - by Amelia Lanyer, Thomas Coryate, John Boys, Pope, Coleridge, Arnold, Kipling, William Plomer, Auden, Walter Mac

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Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that give him prominence. By combining insights and methods from both cognitive psychology and literary theory, this book contributes to a better understanding of how readers process literary texts and what role their assumptions about an author play. A series of experiments demonstrate that reader

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Literary semiotics --- English literature --- Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) --- Children in literature. --- Children --- Children's stories, English --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Fantasy fiction, English --- Linguistics in literature. --- Semiotics and literature --- Symbolism in literature. --- Books and reading --- History --- History and criticism. --- Carroll, Lewis, --- Knowledge --- Language and languages. --- Symbolism. --- Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll). --- Alice --- Carroll, Lewis --- Childhood in literature --- Children in poetry --- Signs and symbols in literature --- Symbolism in folk literature --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Literature and semiotics --- Literature --- Fairchild, Alice, --- Alicia --- Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge --- Testoni, Giampaolo, --- キャロル ルイス --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- History and criticism

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How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation. Barbara Dancygier discusses literary texts as linguistic artifacts, describing the processes which drive the emergence of literary meaning. If a text means something to someone, she argues, there have to be linguistic phenomena that make it possible. Drawing on blending theory and construction grammar, the book focuses its linguistic lens on the concepts of the narrator and the story, and defines narrative viewpoint in a new way. The examples come from a wide spectrum of texts, primarily novels and drama, by authors such as William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Jan Potocki and Mikhail Bulgakov.

Language and languages --- Cognitive grammar. --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Style --- Psychological aspects. --- Cognitive grammar --- Discourse analysis, Literary --- 801.56 --- 82-3 --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Style&delete& --- Psychological aspects --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Stilistics --- Pragmatics --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language and languages - Style - Psychological aspects