Fictional Worlds

by Thomas G. Pavel

Book Overview

Creators of fiction demand that we venture into alien spaces, into the worlds of Antigone, Don Quixote, Faust, Sherlock Holmes. Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties and their reason...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674299655
• ISBN13: 9780674299658
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"