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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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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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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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Beer, David. "Fiction and Social Theory: E-Special Introduction." Theory, Culture & Society 33, no. 7-8 (2016): 409–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276415595912.

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This E-Special issue brings together a range of articles from the Theory, Culture, & Society archive that directly explore the relations between fiction and social theory. Each article develops a different perspective on these relations, yet they all share a common interest in probing at the different ways in which fiction might enrich and provoke our conceptual imaginations. These articles ask how theory might be used to understand or illuminate fiction, whilst also considering how theory might be extended, challenged or informed by fictional resources. In general terms, the articles take

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Raghunath, Riyukta. "Possible worlds theory, accessibility relations, and counterfactual historical fiction." Journal of Literary Semantics 51, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2022-2047.

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Abstract Possible Worlds Theory has commonly been invoked to describe fictional worlds and their relationship to the actual world. As an approach to genre, the relationship between fictional worlds and the actual world is also constitutive of specific text types. By drawing on the notion of accessibility relations, different genres can be classified based on the distance between their fictional worlds and the actual world. Maître, Doreen. 1983. Literature and possible worlds. Middlesex: Middlesex University Press for example, in what is considered the first attempt to adapt accessibility relat

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GHEORGHIU, Oana Celia. "ENCODING REALITY INTO FICTION/ DECODING FICTION AS REALITY: POSTMODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY AS CRITICAL THEORY." International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education 5, no. 1 (2021): 99–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.26520/mcdsare.2021.5.99-105.

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This paper is intended as a brief critical review of three interrelated, fairly similar critical theories, born out the necessity of looking into cultural forms and products with a view to finding the politics at work therein. While American New Historicism is more historically oriented, British Cultural Materialism, with its more obvious influence from Marxism, Postcolonialism and other theories which place the margin at their centre, seems to be more in tune with contemporaneity, and so is the area of Cultural Studies, with its emphasis on cultural representations. It is advocated here that

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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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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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Kidd, David, Martino Ongis, and Emanuele Castano. "On literary fiction and its effects on theory of mind." Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy 6, no. 1 (2016): 42–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.6.1.04kid.

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Storytelling is a hallmark human activity. We use stories to make sense of the world, to explain it to our children, to create communities, and to learn about others. This article focuses on fictional stories and their impact on complex sociocognitive abilities. Correlational and experimental evidence shows that exposure to fiction recruits and hones our ability to represent others’ mental states, or theory of mind (ToM). Experimental studies suggest this effect is specific to literary fiction. Using a unique set of texts, we replicate the finding that literary fiction improves ToM performance

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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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