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POPA, Alexandru. "Fiktion´ und Fiktionen. Einige Beobachtungen zu terminologischen und sachlichen Unklarheiten in literaturtheoretischem und -wissenschaftlichem Kontext." Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies 14 (63), Special Issue (2022): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pcs.2021.63.14.3.2.

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The following article discusses some issues regarding the use of the terms ‘fiction’, ‘fictionality’, ‘fictive’ and ‘fictional’ with regard to fictions and fictional expressions or texts. The main concern of this text is to indicate the fact, that ‘fiction’ and fictions are used and treated with a certain amount of ambiguity. It is the case when literature and literary worlds are discussed both in a general context and in scholarly treatment of these issues. Relevant terminological distinctions exist. Still, their use to name their corresponding referents lacks a certain consequence.

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Frame, Alex. "Fictions in the Thought of Sir John Salmond." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 30, no. 1 (1999): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v30i1.6021.

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A Lecture delivered for the Stout Centre's "Eminent Victorians" Centennial Series in the Council Chamber, Hunter Building at Victoria University on 31 March 1999. The author pays tribute to the late Sir John Salmond by discussing the role of "fiction" in law and in the thought of Sir John. The author notes the nature of fiction as a formidable force, as it facilitates provisional escape from the tyranny of apparent fact and forget about the suspensory nature of fiction. There are three types of "fictions" in the legal world: legislative fictions, whereby the world is refashioned in accordance

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Mikkonen, Jukka. "Sutrop on literary fiction-making: defending Currie." Disputatio 3, no. 28 (2010): 309–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2010-0004.

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Abstract In her study Fiction and Imagination: The Anthropological Function of Literature (2000), Margit Sutrop criticizes Gregory Currie’s theory of fiction-making, as presented in The Nature of Fiction(1990), for using an inappropriate conception of the author’s ‘fictive intention.’ As Sutrop sees it, Currie is mistaken in reducing the author’s fictive intention to that of achieving a certain response in the audience. In this paper, I shall discuss Sutrop’s theory of fiction-making and argue that although her view is insightful in distinguishing the illocutionary effect and the perlocutionar

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Fitzpatrick, Noel. "The question of Fiction – nonexistent objects, a possible world response from Paul Ricoeur." Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 17, no. 1 (2016): 137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kjps-2016-0020.

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Abstract The question of fiction is omnipresent within the work of Paul Ricoeur throughout his prolific career. However, Ricoeur raises the questions of fiction in relation to other issues such the symbol, metaphor and narrative. This article sets out to foreground a traditional problem of fiction and logic, which is termed the existence of non-existent objects, in relation to the Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrative. Ricoeur’s understanding of fiction takes place within his overall philosophical anthropology where the fictions and histories make up the very nature of identity both personal and co

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Mosselaer, Nele Van de. "How Can We Be Moved to Shoot Zombies? A Paradox of Fictional Emotions and Actions in Interactive Fiction." Journal of Literary Theory 12, no. 2 (2018): 279–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2018-0016.

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Abstract How can we be moved by the fate of Anna Karenina? By asking this question, Colin Radford introduced the paradox of fiction, or the problem that we are often emotionally moved by characters and events which we know don’t really exist (1975). A puzzling element of these emotions that always resurfaced within discussions on the paradox is the fact that, although these emotions feel real to the people who have them, their difference from ›real‹ emotions is that they cannot motivate us to perform any actions. The idea that actions towards fictional particulars are impossible still underlie

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Matravers, Derek. "Non-Fictions and Narrative Truths." Croatian journal of philosophy 22, no. 65 (2022): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.52685/cjp.22.65.1.

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This paper starts from the fact that the study of narrative in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy is almost exclusively the study of fictional narrative. It returns to an earlier debate in which Hayden White argued that “historiography is a form of fiction-making.” Although White’s claims are hyperbolical, the paper argues that he was correct to stress the importance of the claim that fiction and non-fiction use “the same techniques and strategies.” A distinction is drawn between properties of narratives that are simply properties of narratives and properties of narratives that play a role

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Song, Myung Jin. "Metafictional Writing and Fictionality : Focusing on Kim Yeon-soo’s Good-bye, Lee Sang." Korean Association for Literacy 15, no. 6 (2024): 385–405. https://doi.org/10.37736/kjlr.2024.12.15.6.14.

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Fictionality is a central theme in Kim Yeon-soo’s novels. His works challenge the dichotomy of fiction and reality, truth and falsehood, and the real and the fake. Kim explores the possibilities of fictionality at the boundaries of these constructs, adopting a consistently metafictional approach. This study examines the semantics of fiction in Good-bye, Lee Sang. The second story in Good-bye, Lee Sang, “Lost Flower,” examines the dichotomy between fiction and reality, illustrating how fiction transforms into reality. Reality, Kim suggests, is merely another form of fiction—one that survives by

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Mikkonen, Kai. "Minimal Departure and Fictional Narrative Situations." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 13, no. 2 (2021): 71–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/stw.2021.a925851.

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Abstract: Readers understand fictional worlds at least to some extent by drawing on background knowledge of their own world. Some theories of fiction, however, hold that such realistic expectations, or processes of naturalization, are the default attitude in experiencing fictions. Thus, what Marie-Laure Ryan has called the principle of minimal departure (MD) states that readers understand fictional worlds and their components by drawing on background knowledge of their own world, unless otherwise indicated. This article is a critical examination of the relevance of the principle of MD and a co

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Morris, Raphael. "Interpretive Context, Counterpart Theory and Fictional Realism without Contradictions." Disputatio 11, no. 54 (2019): 231–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2019-0018.

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Abstract Models for truth in fiction must be able to account for differing versions and interpretations of a given fiction in such a way that prevents contradictions from arising. I propose an analysis of truth in fiction designed to accommodate this. I examine both the interpretation of claims about truth in fiction (the ‘Interpretation Problem’) and the metaphysical nature of fictional worlds and entities (the ‘Metaphysical Problem’). My reply to the Interpretation Problem is a semantic contextualism influenced by Cameron (2012), while my reply to the Metaphysical Problem involves an extensi

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Egerton, Karl. "Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80, no. 1 (2021): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab058.

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Abstract Alongside the direct parallels and contrasts between traditional narrative fiction and games, there lie certain partial analogies that provide their own insights. This article begins by examining a direct parallel between narrative fiction and games—the role of fictional reliefs and reality checks in shaping aesthetic engagement—before arguing that from this a partial analogy can be developed stemming from a feature that distinguishes most games from most traditional fictions: the presence of rules. The relation between rules and fiction in games has heretofore been acknowledged but n

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Bacanu, Horea. "Globalisation of Cultural Circuits. The Case of International Awards for Fiction." European Review Of Applied Sociology 8, no. 11 (2015): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eras-2015-0008.

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Abstract In the international circuit of fictional texts from the last fifty years (perhaps even one hundred years, in some cases), several independent international organizations, academic and editorial platforms of critique and debate have been established. They have been organizing international contests, fine authorities of critical appreciation, evaluation and awarding of most prolific authors and most successful fictional texts: novels, short stories, stories or utopian and dystopian fictions. The allotment on cultural corridors, the geographical identification of both author and title d

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Wieland, Nellie. "Escaping Fiction." Croatian journal of philosophy 24, no. 70 (2024): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.52685/cjp.24.70.6.

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In this paper I argue that a norm of literary fiction is to compel the reader to form beliefs about the world as it is. It may seem wrong to suggest that the reason I believe p is because I imagined p, yet literary fiction can make this the case. I argue for an account grounded in indexed doxastic susceptibilities mapped between a fictional context and the particular properties of a reader, more specifically the susceptibilities in her beliefs, attitudes, and psychological states. Works of fiction can be about different things at the same time, some of which are fictive and some of which are f

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Ander, Zed. "Really Fictional Fiction." Iowa Review 29, no. 2 (1999): 160–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/0021-065x.5157.

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Grishakova, Marina, Remo Gramigna, and Siim Sorokin. "Imaginary scenarios: On the use and misuse of fiction." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5, no. 1 (2019): 112–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2019-0008.

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AbstractThis paper argues that the examination of representational (formal) and semantic (referential) features of fictional and factual narratives would be incomplete without discussing specific pragmatic (communicative, performative, heuristic, and cognitive) functions of fiction – how and why “fictions” are used in literature and arts, but also in scientific, philosophical, and everyday discourses. On the one hand, the pragmatic approach blurs the fictional/ factual divide and identifies similarities in the use of fiction across disciplinary borders. On the other, as we argue, to avoid panf

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Fathallah, Judith. "Reading real person fiction as digital fiction: An argument for new perspectives." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 24, no. 6 (2017): 568–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856516688624.

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‘Real person fiction’ (RPF) is a subset of fanfiction that has gone largely unnoticed by academics. A handful of articles have argued for the justification of stories about real (living) people as a legitimate and morally sound art form, but only a very few studies have begun to consider RPF as a genre with its own aesthetics and conventions. This article argues that, to understand fannish RPF, we need to incorporate tools developed by scholars of digital fiction. Almost all fanfic is now produced for and on digital platforms, and moreover, the natural fit between RPF specifically and the stud

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Zhang, Richard, and Duri Long. "Beyond Content: Leaning on the Poetics of Defamiliarization in Design Fictions." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9, GROUP (2025): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3701184.

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Literary approaches to design fictions, though previously theorized to be diverse in form and content, often fall within narrow stylistic and content boundaries such as speculative abstracts, memos, and studies. By drawing on a rich history of science fiction criticism, we advocate for literary design fictions that diverge from what is commonplace in HCI and design research. We foreground our paper with a discussion of the poetics of science fiction, and their relationship to current design fiction practices. Specifically, we highlight how the poetics of a design fiction can work to familiariz

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Savage, Paul, Joep P. Cornelissen, and Henrika Franck. "Fiction and Organization Studies." Organization Studies 39, no. 7 (2017): 975–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840617709309.

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The topic of fiction is in itself not new to the domain of organization studies. However, prior research has often separated fiction from the reality of organizations and used fiction metaphorically or as a figurative source to describe and interpret organizations. In this article, we go beyond the classic use of fiction, and suggest that fiction should be a central concern in organization studies. We draw on the philosophy of fiction to offer an alternative account of the nature of fiction and its basic operation. We specifically import Searle’s work on speech acts, Walton’s pretense theory,

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Monterde, José Enrique. "Algunas observaciones sobre el documental histórico." Tripodos, no. 16 (December 20, 2004): 23–36. https://doi.org/10.51698/tripodos.2004.16.23-36.

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After making certain terminological clarifications and then situating the historical documentary in the dual position of non-fictional cinema and "historical cinema", the author reaffirms the common discourse which assumes both documentary and fiction to be of a historical order, which, however, does not prevent the clarification of those aspects which justify the typological diferentiation between film fiction and non-fiction. Fully situated in the orbit of non-fictional cinema, this paper establishes a repertoire of the diverse modalities included in this ambit: filmed news events, news bull

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Garrido Ardila, Juan Antonio. "Las rutas del «Quijote» por la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII." Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, no. 26 (October 27, 2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17811/cesxviii.26.2016.17-31.

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RESUMENEste artículo sopesa las principales derrotas en las investigaciones en torno a la presencia, recepción e influjo del Quijote en la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII. Se parte aquí de la distinción establecida entre novelas inglesas dieciochescas de temática quijotesca (las denominadas Quixotic fictions) y aquellas cuyas características formales se inspiran en el Quijote (las Cervantean novels). Respecto de las primeras se subraya la escasez deestudios y las muchas posibilidades que estas brindan al estudioso que quiera indagar en el tratamiento satírico de la compleja sociedad que las ins

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Stopel, Bartosz. "Engaging Readers Cognitively and Affectively in Flash Fiction." Transfer. Reception Studies 9 (November 30, 2024): 85–101. https://doi.org/10.16926/trs.2024.09.13.

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This article sets out to explore flash fiction, understood as very short forms of prose narrative and taking it to be a mode of writing that only properly developed in recent decades, although not without prominent antecedents going back through centuries of literary history. It addresses the issues of defining flash fiction, as well as its formal features, outlining their typical structures as well as speculating on how flash fiction may engage readers in its own characteristic ways. I argue that while retaining the basics of narrative requirements, such as representing events and being able

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Jones, Calvert W., and Celia Paris. "It’s the End of the World and They Know It: How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes." Perspectives on Politics 16, no. 4 (2018): 969–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592718002153.

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Given that the fictional narratives found in novels, movies, and television shows enjoy wide public consumption, memorably convey information, minimize counter-arguing, and often emphasize politically-relevant themes, we argue that greater scholarly attention must be paid to theorizing and measuring how fiction affects political attitudes. We argue for a genre-based approach for studying fiction effects, and apply it to the popular dystopian genre. Results across three experiments are striking: we find consistent evidence that dystopian narratives enhance the willingness to justify radical—esp

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Collin, Thibault. "Quand la radicalisation rencontre la fiction." Recherches en psychanalyse N° 35/36, no. 1/2 (2024): 195–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rep2.035.36.0195.

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Dans le présent article, nous envisageons les liens entre le processus de radicalisation islamique et la notion de fiction. C’est dans la construction du symptôme – car nous postulons que la radicalisation est un symptôme au sens psychanalytique – que se loge une forme de fiction ainsi que dans son articulation à la passion religieuse qui, sous son aspect mystique, tient aussi de la fable. Le recours à la fictionnalisation représente un moyen bien connu pour résister face au réel et ceci s’observe également chez les sujets radicalisés. L’utilisation de signifiants historiques, le choix d’un ps

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Ruiz Carmona, Carlos. "The Fiction in Non-Fiction Film." Revista ICONO14 Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes 17, no. 2 (2019): 10–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v17i2.1238.

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Over the past few decades film theory, major scholars and acclaimed filmmakers have established that documentary just like fiction must resort to ambiguous and subjective rhetorical figures in order to represent the world. This has led some scholars to conclude that documentary as a term referring to itself as being non-fictional might be disregarding its inevitable fictional elements. This may imply that both documentary and fiction use the same strategies and obtain the same results when representing the world: ficitionalize reality. If we accept this claim as true we need to ask wheth

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Proudfoot, Diane. "Sylvan's Bottle and other Problems." Australasian Journal of Logic 15, no. 2 (2018): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v15i2.4858.

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   According to Richard Routley, a comprehensive theory of fiction is impossible, since almost anything is in principle imaginable. In my view, Routley is right: for any purported logic of fiction, there will be actual or imaginable fictions that successfully counterexample the logic. Using the example of ‘impossible’ fictions, I test this claim against theories proposed by Routley’s Meinongian contemporaries and also by Routley himself (for what he called ‘esoteric’ works of fiction) and his 21st century heirs. I argue that the phenomenon of impossible fictions challenges ev

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Prasad, Amar Nath. "The Non-fictions of V.S. Naipaul: A Critical Exploration." Creative Saplings 1, no. 8 (2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2022.1.8.168.

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V. S. Naipaul is an eminent literary figure in the field of modern fiction, non-fiction, and travelogue writing in English literature. He earned a number of literary awards and accolades, including the covetous Nobel Prize and Booker Prize. His non-fiction e.g., An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, The Loss of El Dorado, India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief are a realistic portrayal of the various types of religion, culture, customs, and people of India. As an author, the main purpose of V. S. Naipaul is to deliver the truth; because poets are the unacknowledged legis

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Saarti, Jarmo. "Fictional Literature, Classification and Indexing." KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 46, no. 4 (2019): 320–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2019-4-320.

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Fiction content analysis and retrieval are interesting specific topics for two major reasons: 1) the extensive use of fictional works; and, 2) the multimodality and interpretational nature of fiction. The primary challenge in the analysis of fictional content is that there is no single meaning to be analysed; the analysis is an ongoing process involving an interaction between the text produced by author, the reader and the society in which the interaction occurs. Furthermore, different audiences have specific needs to be taken into consideration. This article explores the topic of fiction know

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Colleyn, Jean-Paul. "Fiction et fictions en anthropologie." L Homme, no. 175-176 (October 15, 2005): 147–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.1898.

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Colleyn, Jean-Paul. "Fiction et fictions en anthropologie." L'Homme, no. 175-176 (October 15, 2005): 147–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.29528.

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Isto, Raino. "How Dumb Are Big Dumb Objects? OOO, Science Fiction, and Scale." Open Philosophy 2, no. 1 (2019): 552–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2019-0039.

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AbstractThis article considers the potential intersections of object-oriented ontology and science fiction studies by focusing on a particular type of science-fictional artifact, the category of ‘Big Dumb Objects.’ Big Dumb Objects is a terminology used—often quite playfully—to describe things or structures that are simultaneously massive in size and enigmatic in purpose: they stretch the imagination through both the technical aspects of their construction and the obscurity of their purpose. First used to designate the subjects of several science fiction novels written in the 1970s, Big Dumb O

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Wilhelms, Lina. "“Esa zona indeterminada donde se cruzan la ficción y la verdad": Ficciones, realidades y la lectura como agentes críticos en El camino de Ida de Ricardo Piglia." Philologica Canariensia, no. 30 (2024) (June 22, 2024): 569–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.20420/phil.can.2024.691.

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This article analyses Ricardo Piglia's last novel, El camino de Ida (2013), which is influenced by the emphatic concept of fiction and the epistemological potential of literature, postulated by its author. The article discusses how the author aims to develop through his crime fiction a capacity for critical reading allowing us to recognise and read the state and economic fictions that, according to Piglia, fill reality. It will be shown how Piglia deliberately plays with fictional and factual elements at various levels of the complex narrative to provoke a critical and even suspicious attitude

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Major, Jean-Louis. "Journaux fictifs / fiction diaristique." Voix et Images 20, no. 1 (1994): 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/201149ar.

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Slusser, George E. "Structures of Apprehension: Lem, Heinlein, and the Strugatskys." Science Fiction Studies 16, Part 1 (1989): 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.16.1.001.

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What is the nature of science in SF, and what role does it play in shaping its fictions? Is it a “theme”? Or a “subject”? Or does it, as is often claimed, operate as a method of inquiry, causing fictional structures to shape themselves around the cognitive adventure humankind as it investigates the material universe? Such fiction, for Stanislaw Lem, would have to focus, not on actions or characters, but on the “structure of the description.” But Lem doubts that fiction, because its structures are traditionally limited to a human viewpoint, is (inherently) adequate to this task. Epistemological

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Stock, Kathleen. "Knowledge from Fiction and the Challenge from Luck." Grazer Philosophische Studien 96, no. 3 (2019): 476–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756735-09603015.

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In order for true beliefs acquired from reading fiction to count as knowledge proper, they must survive ‘the challenge from luck’. That is, it must be established that such beliefs are neither luckily true, nor luckily believed by readers. The author considers three kinds of true belief a reader may, she assumes, get from reading fiction: a) those based on testimony about empirical facts; b) those based on ‘true in passing’ sentences; and c) those beliefs about counterfactuals one may get from reading a ‘didactic’ fiction. The first group escape the challenge from luck relatively easily, she a

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Zipfel, Frank. "The Pleasures of Imagination. Aspects of Fictionality in the Poetics of the Age of Enlightenment and in Present-Day Theories of Fiction." Journal of Literary Theory 14, no. 2 (2020): 260–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2020-2007.

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AbstractInvestigations into the history of the modern practice of fiction encounter a wide range of obstacles. One of the major impediments lies in the fact that former centuries have used different concepts and terms to designate or describe phenomena or ideas that we, during the last 50 years, have been dealing with under the label of fiction/ality. Therefore, it is not easy to establish whether scholars and poets of other centuries actually do talk about what we today call fiction or fictionality and, if they do, what they say about it. Moreover, even when we detect discourses or propositio

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Randall, Marilyn. "La disparition élocutoire du romancier." Études 31, no. 3 (2006): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/013241ar.

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Résumé Nous définissons le roman de la lecture à partir d’un nombre représentatif de textes qui partagent la structure du « roman dans le roman », créant une problématique de la lecture qui ébranle à la fois la logique du monde fictif et celle mobilisée par le lecteur. Une variante importante sera qualifiée de roman fictif, soit un récit qui confond de façon irrémédiable les niveaux « fictif » et « réel » à l’intérieur de la fiction par un retournement de la fin qui détruit la logique des deux ontologies établies, déstabilisant ainsi la lecture. Dans ces fictions « fictives » (Le double suspec

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Vallée, Richard. "Indexicals in Fiction." Disputatio 14, no. 66 (2022): 305–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2022-0015.

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Abstract Both the semantics of fictional discourse and the semantics of indexicality are canonical topics in the philosophy of language, on which there exists well-known significant literature. However, the same cannot be said for the terrain where they overlap. That is, the distinctive issues raised by fictive uses of indexicals and demonstratives have not been extensively studied per se. The aim of the present essay is to shed some light on this terrain, and to advance our understanding of some of these issues. As it happens, accounting for indexicals in fiction requires the use of innovativ

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Bell, Hazel K. "Indexes as fiction and fiction as paper-chase." Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 20, Issue 4 20, no. 4 (1997): 209–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/indexer.1997.20.4.13.

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Discusses indexes as works of fiction in their own right, or as components of other fiction works. Includes detailed discussion of the fictional index to Nabokov’s Pale fire and its contribution to the text of the work.

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Weinert, Friedel. "Hypothetical, not Fictional Worlds." Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 17, no. 1 (2016): 110–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kjps-2016-0019.

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Abstract This paper critically analyzes the fiction-view of scientific modeling, which exploits presumed analogies between literary fiction and model building in science. The basic idea is that in both fiction and scientific modeling fictional worlds are created. The paper argues that the fiction-view comes closest to certain scientific thought experiments, especially those involving demons in science and to literary movements like naturalism. But the paper concludes that the dissimilarities prevail over the similarities. The fiction-view fails to do justice to the plurality of model types use

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Sandy, Mark. "The Sense of an Ending: Poetic Spaces and Closure in Keats’s 1819 Odes." Romanticism 28, no. 2 (2022): 188–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0554.

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Following Frank Kermode’s distinction, in The Sense of an Ending, between the stability of myth and the changeability of fiction, Keats’s ‘Ode on Indolence’ offers an understated self-conscious presentation of myth and fiction in comparison with the Nightingale and Grecian Urn odes. All three of these odes invest in mythologies as much as they remain alert to their own poetic frames and the fictive nature of the fictions behind them. This poetic self-awareness reconnects Keats’s odes with the reality of death behind the mythic figures of nightingale, urn, and indolence. Such subtle, shifting,

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Аnchishina, E. A. "THE ROLE OF LEGAL FICTIONS IN MODERN LAW ENFORCEMENT PRACTICE." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Economics and Law 30, no. 5 (2020): 697–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9593-2020-30-5-697-705.

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This article is devoted to defining the role of legal fictions in modern law enforcement practice. To do this, the author reveals the content of this category, paying attention to the absence of the need to consider fiction as something false and contrary to objective reality. Further, the author defines the meaning of legal fictions, conducting a detailed analysis of their main functions on the example of the civil legislation of the Russian Federation and the corresponding law enforcement practice. At the same time, its practical aspect is mainly studied. The main attention is paid to the pr

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Košmrlj, Lea. "The Paradox of Historical Fiction." Acta Neophilologica 57, no. 2 (2024): 45–61. https://doi.org/10.4312/an.57.2.45-61.

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In light of the fact/fiction divide, this paper delves into the literary genre of historical fiction for young adults and re-examines the disputed boundaries between fact and fiction. Exploring Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars, a work of historical fiction for young adults about life in Nazi-occupied Denmark, this discussion addresses the paradoxical nature of historical fiction: it is the fictional elements of historical fiction that play the crucial part in bringing historical facts closer to the young adult reader.

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Bladon, Henry. "Should psychiatrists write fiction?" BJPsych Bulletin 42, no. 2 (2018): 77–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2017.5.

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SummaryThis paper looks at the relationship between fiction and psychiatry. Specifically, the idea of psychiatrists as fiction writers is explored, and reference is made to various fictional texts to illustrate the problems of stigma and negative imagery. These two main areas of focus are highlighted as ones that the practice of writing fiction might address, and some potential pitfalls are discussed. The paper suggests how psychiatrists might ameliorate the present problems by incorporating their unique clinical skills and knowledge into fictional narratives.Declaration of interestNone.

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Orlando, Eleonora. "Fictional Names and Literary Characters: A Defence of Abstractism." THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science 31, no. 2 (2016): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/theoria.15193.

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This paper is focused on the abstractist theory of fiction, namely, the semantic theory according to which fictional names refer to abstract entities. Two semantic problems that arise in relation to that position are analysed: the first is the problem of accounting for the intuitive truth of typically fictive uses of statements containing fictional names; the second is the one of explaining some problematic metafictive uses, in particular, the use of intuitively true negative existentials.

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Zverev, Oleg A. "FACT AND ARTISTRY IN MODERN TEXTS: REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES." Dynamics of Media Systems 4, no. 2 (2024): 36–44. https://doi.org/10.47475/2949-3390-2024-4-2-36-44.

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Non-fiction (from English «non-fiction», literally – “non–fiction”) is non-fiction literature that includes various prose genres based on real events and facts. Non-fiction includes nonfiction literature (biographies, memoirs, diaries, travel notes, essays), popular science literature, self-development literature and reference literature. A feature of non-fiction is the emotional impact on the reader through the description of real reality, and not through fictional characters and invented narratives, as it happens in fiction. This article examines the main scientific approaches to the study o

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Khan, Mir hazar. "گل بنگلزئی نا افسانہ غاتا کتاب، دڑد آتا گواچی؛ نا جاچ اس". Al-Burz 13, № 1 (2021): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.54781/abz.v13i1.271.

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When the industrial revolution and progressive tendencies in the nineteenth century influenced every sphere of life, literature could also not escape such trends. At that time, fiction (short story) was introduced as a new genre in literary world and soon it managed to generate a distinction. Like the other languages of the world, fiction writers of Brahui literature also effectively adopted this genre. Among the pioneer Brahui fiction writers, the name of Gul Bangulzai is also well known who initiated the fiction writing. The effects of the progressive literary movement can be seen in his f

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Mahlberg, Michaela, Viola Wiegand, Peter Stockwell, and Anthony Hennessey. "Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 28, no. 4 (2019): 326–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947019886754.

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We propose a lexico-grammatical approach to speech in fiction based on the centrality of ‘fictional speech-bundles’ as the key element of fictional talk. To identify fictional speech-bundles, we use three corpora of 19th-century fiction that are available through the corpus stylistic web application CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context). We focus on the ‘quotes’ subsets of the corpora, i.e. text within quotation marks, which is mostly equivalent to direct speech. These quotes subsets are compared across the fiction corpora and with the spoken component of the British National Corpus 1994. The c

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Van De Mosselaer, Nele. "Imaginative Desires and Interactive Fiction: On Wanting to Shoot Fictional Zombies." British Journal of Aesthetics 60, no. 3 (2019): 241–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayz049.

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Abstract What do players of videogames mean when they say they want to shoot zombies? Surely they know that the zombies are not real, and that they cannot really shoot them, but only control a fictional character who does so. Some philosophers of fiction argue that we need the concept of imaginative desires (or ‘i-desires’) to explain situations in which people feel desires towards fictional characters or desires that motivate pretend actions. Others claim that we can explain these situations without complicating human psychology with a novel mental state. Within their debates, however, these

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Basdeo, Stephen, and Rebecca Nesvet. "Reappraising Penny Fiction." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 4, no. 2 (2023): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/dhbv6145.

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This Introduction to the Special Volume of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal titled “Reappraising Penny Fiction” defines penny fiction, surveys its prehistory, and reconstructs its emergence in the nineteenth-century British media and globally. The article then engages with the ongoing scholarly debate about “penny dreadfuls” and theorises how misconceptions about the genre developed and were circulated by critics and scholars. Finally, the article introduces the central questions and themes of the special issue, as well as the individual articles. Victorian penny fiction has long been consid

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Berninger, Anja. "Empathy – Real-Life and Fiction-Based." Journal of Literary Theory 12, no. 2 (2018): 224–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2018-0013.

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Abstract In response to the so-called paradox of fiction, Kendall Walton famously argued that our affective reactions to fictions differ structurally from real-life emotions. Many authors now reject the idea that there really is a paradox of fiction. But, even if this is true, Walton may have been right in that there really are far reaching differences between the way we respond to fictions and our real-life emotional reactions. That is, even if we do not believe the paradox of fiction is a paradox, it can still lead us to doubt the homogeneity of our emotional responses and to reflect on the

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Sparkes, Andrew C. "Fictional Representations: On Difference, Choice, and Risk." Sociology of Sport Journal 19, no. 1 (2002): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.19.1.1.

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This article is intended to stimulate debate regarding recent calls for fictional representations to be used within the sociology of sport. Based on the notion of “being there,” it differentiates between ethnographic fiction and creative fiction. Examples of the former are provided, and their grounding in the tradition of creative nonfiction is established. Moves toward the use of creative fiction are then considered in relation to the willingness of authors to invent people, places, and events in the service of producing an illuminative and evocative story. The issue of purpose is highlighted

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