BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FICTION AND FACT IN THE LIGHT OF THE THREE LEVEL COMPARATIVE STUDIES

Journal Title: Studia Litterarum - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 3

Abstract

The author’s aim is to reconsider the difference between fact and fiction in diachronic, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspective. The study covers a long period, mainly from the 17th Century to the present time, drawing on literary studies but also on law studies and cognitive science. A comparative methodology it employs counterpoises artefacts pertaining to different times, cultural epochs, and geographies (paying attention to the tension between the Far East and the Western world, in particular) as well as to different media. Considering these multiple dimensions, fiction is understood as a trans-historical, transcultural, and trans-medial phenomenon. The author defines fiction as a possible world that has its own peculiar ontology and focuses on a cluster of related questions including fictional characters, paradox and “metalepsis,” a rhetorical figure that reinforces the boundary between fact and fiction as it creates the illusion of crossing it.

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Françoise Lavocat

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  • EP ID EP26101
  • DOI 10.22455/2500-4247-2016-1-3-4-29-42
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Françoise Lavocat (2016). BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FICTION AND FACT IN THE LIGHT OF THE THREE LEVEL COMPARATIVE STUDIES. Studia Litterarum, 1(3), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-26101