Research Catalog

Title

Fictional thinking : a poetics and rhetoric of fictional creativity in theatre / Eli Rozik.

Author

Rozik, Eli

Publication

Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

xiv, 323 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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 and aesthetic - and overriding these layers, the fictional experience on the level of relationship between the fictional world and spectator. This experience depends on the spectator's ability to complement such a description with pertinent associations, drawn from shared cultural resources, and psychical mechanisms of response. Explanations and examples are couched in poetic, pragmatic, aesthetic and rhetoric methodologies."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Fürstliches Schauspielhaus Bad Pyrmont
• Fiction
• Drama
• Theater > Philosophy
• Roman
• Théâtre (Genre littéraire)
• plays (performing arts compositions)
• fiction (general genre)
• drama (literary genre)
• Philosophie
• Poetik
• Theater
• Fiktion
• Drama > Fiktion
• Fiktion > Drama
• Fiction
• Drama
• Theater > Philosophy

Genre/Form

• novels.
• Novels
• Drama
• Fiction
• Romans.
• Théâtre.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. State of the art and perspectives -- 1. nature of fictional worlds -- 2. mythical layer -- 3. praxical layer -- 4. naive layer -- 5. ironic layer -- 6. modal layer -- 7. aesthetic layer -- 8. Structure of character -- 9. Characterization and credibility -- 10. Intertextual relations -- 11. Fictional interaction -- 12. Fictional time and place -- 13. Metaphoric structure -- 14. Allegoric structure -- 15. Rhetoric structure -- 16. Spectator's complementation -- 17. Hamartia/catastrophe structure -- 18. Virtue/villainy structure -- 19. Hamartia and Christianity -- 20. Absurdist structure -- 21. Structure of conflict -- 22. Ritual experience and truth -- 23. Anti-Aristotelian poetics -- 24. Generic transformation : the Hippolytus-Phaedra myth -- 25. Generation of Life is a dream from Oedipus the king -- 26. Deconstruction of archetypal characterization in The seagull -- 27. chairs in performance -- App. compendium of the theatre medium.

ISBN

• 9781845193263
• 1845193261
• 9781845193270
• 184519327X

LCCN

2008051865

OCLC

• 277040902
• SCSB-12843355

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library