Possible worlds of literature: prerequisites, main tasks and approach to fictional world

Authors

  • Irina Vladislavovna Neronova P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18255/2412-6519-2015-4-277-283

Keywords:

possible worlds, fictional world, literary work, fictional reference, philosophy of language, modal logic

Abstract

The aim of the article is to acquaint a reader with wide used in western literary theory and little known in Russian approach to fictional world which is based on modal logic. The article sets forth the reasons of transfer of analytic philosophy’s theory on the subject of literary theory research, and also describes the main characteristics of fictional worlds of literature within the framework of the theory.

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Published

2016-02-10

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 4 (2015)

Section

Philology

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