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E-BooksFictional Names A Critical Study of Some Theories Not Committed to the Existence of Fictional Entities



Fictional Names A Critical Study of Some Theories Not Committed to the Existence of Fictional Entities
Free Download Angelo Napolano, "Fictional Names: A Critical Study of Some Theories Not Committed to the Existence of Fictional Entities"
English | ISBN: 1443859737 | 2014 | 130 pages | PDF | 449 KB
If it is true that when we use a name, it must be the name of something, what is it that we name when we use terms such as Sherlock Holmes, Odysseus, and many of the same type? What is it we are addressing and how do the referential relations work assuming that we are thinking or talking about something when we use these terms? Otherwise, if we are speaking about nothing when we use a fictional name, how do we understand the linguistic process which gives us the impression of speaking about something? This book develops a critical study of some theories which deny any ontological existence to fictional characters. It provides an analysis of the contribution of these terms to the meaning of the sentences in which they are used and on the structure of thoughts adopted in assertions about fictional characters.



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E-BooksEdith Bruck in the Mirror Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives



Edith Bruck in the Mirror Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives
Free Download Philip Balma, "Edith Bruck in the Mirror: Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives "
English | ISBN: 1557536872 | 2014 | 234 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the English-speaking world not least for her powerful Holocaust testimony, which is often compared with the work of her contemporaries Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani. Born in Hungary in 1932, she was deported with her family to the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Christianstadt, Landsberg, and Bergen-Belsen, where she lost both her parents and a brother. After the war, she traveled widely until 1954 when she settled in Rome. She has lived there ever since. This important new study is motivated by a desire to better understand and situate Bruck's art as well as to advance (and, when necessary, to revise) the critical discourse on her considerable and eclectic body of work. As such, it underscores and analyzes the intermedial nature of her contributions to contemporary Italian culture, which should no longer be understood merely in terms of her willingness to revisit the subject of the Holocaust on the printed page or the silver screen. It also includes previously unpublished interviews with the author. The book will be of broad interest to scholars and students of Jewish (especially Holocaust) studies, Italian literature, film studies, women's studies, and postcolonial culture.



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E-BooksFictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction



Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction
Free Download Garry Young, "Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1793639191 | 2021 | 276 pages | EPUB | 822 KB
It is commonplace for fictional content to depict immoral activities: the kidnapping of a politician, for example, or the elaborate theft of a national treasure, or perhaps the gruesome proclivities of a sadistic murderer. These and similar depictions can be found across a range of media, and in varying degrees of detail and realism. Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction examines potential conditions for transforming fictional immorality into immoral fiction, in order to establish what makes a depiction of fictional immorality and/or one's engagement with it immoral. To achieve this aim, Garry Young analyzes fictional content, its meaning, one's motivation for engaging with it, and the medium in which the fiction is presented (such as film, literature, theatre, video games) using philosophical inquiry. The end result is a systematic examination of fictional immorality, which contributes toward debates on the morality of depicting and engaging with fictional immorality, as well as the reach of censorship and other forms of prohibition, especially when the act depicted is of the kind that would be most egregious if carried out in reality.



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E-BooksTop Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe Translation, Dissemination and Mediality



Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe Translation, Dissemination and Mediality
Free Download Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe: Translation, Dissemination and Mediality by Rita Schlusemann , Helwi Blom , Anna Katharina Richter and Krystyna Wierzbicka-Trwoga
English | EPUB | 2023 | 300 Pages | ISBN : 3110758482 | 17.9 MB
This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. Combining literary studies and book history, this work offers for the first time a transnational perspective on a selected text corpus of this genre. It explores the spatio-temporal transmission of the texts in different languages and the materiality of the editions: the narratives were bought, sold, read, translated and adapted across European borders, from the south of Spain to Iceland and from Great Britain to Poland. Thus, the study analyses the multi-faceted processes of cultural circulation, translation and adaptation of the texts. In their diverse forms of mediality such as romance, drama, ballad and penny prints, they also make a significant contribution to a European identity in the early modern period. The narrative texts examined here include Apollonius, Septem sapientum, Amadis de Gaula, Fortunatus, Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne, Melusine, Griseldis, Aesopus' Life and Fables, Reynaert de vos and Till Ulenspiegel.



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E-BooksThe Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal Fictional Aesthetics and Memory after Postmodernism



The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal Fictional Aesthetics and Memory after Postmodernism
Free Download Paulo de Medeiros, "The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal: Fictional Aesthetics and Memory after Postmodernism"
English | ASIN : B0BZGM66H4 | 2024 | 192 pages | EPUB, PDF | 949 KB + 2 MB
The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept of the 'hypercontemporary' as a way of reading the novel after its postmodern period.



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E-BooksSocial Robots A Fictional Dualism Model



Social Robots A Fictional Dualism Model
Free Download Paula Sweeney, "Social Robots: A Fictional Dualism Model "
English | ISBN: 1538185024 | 2023 | 152 pages | EPUB, PDF | 251 KB + 1444 KB
Social robots are an increasingly integral part of society, already appearing as customer service assistants, care-home helpers, teaching assistants and personal companions. This book argues that the wider inclusion of social robots in our society is having a revolutionary impact on some of our key intuitions regarding ethics, metaphysics and epistemology and, as such, will put pressure on many of our best theories.



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E-BooksThe Story of Fictional Truth Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel



The Story of Fictional Truth Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel
Free Download Paul Dawson, "The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel "
English | ISBN: 0814215475 | 2023 | 259 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In The Story of Fictional Truth, Paul Dawson looks anew at the historical relationship between the genre of the novel and the concept of fictionality, arguing that existing scholarship on the emergence of realist fiction has been shaped by the trope of the death of the novel. The unexplored logic of this premise is that the novel was born anticipating its own demise, with both its requiem and its reflexive origins legible in the ontological challenge of postmodern metafiction. To test this logic, Dawson traces shifting assumptions about what constitutes the illusion of fictional truth from early novels such as



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E-BooksFictional Games A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play



Fictional Games A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play
Fictional Games
by Gualeni, Stefano;Fassone, Riccardo;

English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350277088 | 217 pages | True PDF EPUB | 36.83 MB



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E-BooksThe Red Countess Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)



The Red Countess Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)
The Red Countess: Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951) By Lionel Gossman
2018 | 453 Pages | ISBN: 1783745541 | PDF | 4 MB
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer.Zur Mühlen translated over 70 books from English, French and Russian into German, notably the novels of Upton Sinclair, which she turned into best-sellers in Germany; produced a series of detective novels under a pseudonym; wrote seven engaging and thought-provoking novels of her own, six of which were translated into English; contributed countless insightful short stories and articles to newspapers and magazines; and, having become a committed socialist, achieved international renown in the 1920s with her Fairy Tales for Workers' Children, which were widely translated including into Chinese and Japanese.Because of her fervent and outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she and her life-long Jewish partner, Stefan Klein, had to flee first Germany, where they had settled, and then, in 1938, her native Austria. They found refuge in England, where Zur Mühlen died, forgotten and virtually penniless, in 1951.



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E-BooksFictional Discourse A Radical Fictionalist Semantics



Fictional Discourse A Radical Fictionalist Semantics
Stefano Predelli, "Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics"
English | 2020 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 0198854129 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language. Its central idea is familiar to anyone exposed to the ways of narrative fiction, namely the notion of a fictional teller. Starting with premises having to do with fictional names such as 'Holmes' or 'Emma', Stefano Predelli develops Radical Fictionalism, a theory that is subsequently applied to central themes in the analysis of fiction. Among other things, he discusses the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, the relationships between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrative, narrative time, unreliability, and closure. The final chapters extend Radical Fictionalism to critical discourse, as Predelli introduces the ideas of critical and biased retelling, and pauses on the relationships between Radical Fictionalism and talk about literary characters.



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