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Language and world creation in poems and other texts
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"In Poiesis and Possible Worlds, Thomas L. Martin addresses the debate about poststructuralist and postmodern literary theories and offers a philosophical approach to some of their more controversial tenets." "Engaging and convincingly argued, Poiesis and Possible Worlds will be…
In Poiesis and Possible Worlds, Thomas L. Martin makes a highly focused intervention in the debate about poststructuralist and postmodern theorizing and offers a philosophical approach to some of the controversial tenets of recent theorists. The result is an important addition t…
In this book the author presents a philosophical account of meaningful thought: in particular, how it is meaningful to think about things that are impossible.--Publisher's description.
This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds. Areas investigated include the theories of the nature of possible worlds, general questions about metaphysical analysis and questions about the direction of dependence…
Heterocosmica: fiction and possible worlds
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In Heterocosmica, Lubomir Dolezel offers a complete theory of literary fiction based on the idea of possible worlds. Beginning with a discussion of the extant semantics and pragmatics of fictionality - by Leibniz, Russell, Frege, Searle, Auerbach, and others - he relates them to…
