Fictional Worlds

Fictional Worlds
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 0674299663
ISBN-13 : 9780674299665
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Book Synopsis Fictional Worlds by : Thomas G. Pavel

Download or read book Fictional Worlds written by Thomas G. Pavel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties, and their reason for being.


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