Time in fiction

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What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series-stories involving time travellers, recurring and rewinding time, and foreknowledge of the future? Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne show how we can use the complexities of fictional time to get to the core of the relation between truth in fiction and possibility.

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Full title :Time in fiction / Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne.

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Publication Date:2016.
Edition:First edition

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780191662805, 0191662801
oclc:ocn945784103
LC Classification:PN56.T5
Dewey Decimal:809/.93384

Cover ; Time in Fiction; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Detailed Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Theories of Fiction; 1.1 Realism vs Antirealism; 1.2 A Possible-Worlds Theory of Fiction; 1.2.1 Analysing fiction operators; 1.2.2 Reports of what happens in fictions; 1.2.3 Negative existentials; 1.3 Two Neighbouring Theories; 1.3.1 Lewis's account of truth in fiction; 1.3.2 Priest's account of non-existent objects; PART I: Tense in Fiction; Chapter 2: Theories of Time and Tense; 2.1 Time's Flow; 2.2 B-Theories of Time; 2.3 A-Theories of Time; 2.4 Two Uses of 'Present'

Chapter 3: Fictional Time-A-Series or B-Series?3.1 McTaggart: Fictional Events in the A-Series?; 3.2 Tense in Films and Plays: The Claim of Presentness; 3.3 The Claim of Presentness: Take 2; 3.4 Tense Without Location; 3.5 Non-Standard Presentation: Anachrony and Disunity; 3.6 Aesthetic Support for the B-Series?; Chapter 4: The Fictional Future; 4.1 The Plot of Macbeth; 4.2 Three Types of Tensed Truthbearers for Fiction; 4.3 Prophescenes; 4.4 Future-Tensed Beliefs of Fictional Narrators?; 4.5 Future-Tensed Beliefs of Actual Audience Members?; 4.6 Macbeth as an Agent.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Fiction -- History and criticism Roman Roman -- Histoire et critique Temps dans la littérature Time in literature Zeit