True Lies Worldwide ：Fictionality in Global Contexts

Publication subTitle ：Fictionality in Global Contexts

Author： Cullhed Anders;Rydholm Lena  

Publisher： De Gruyter‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9783110303209

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110303124

Subject： I106.4 Novels

Keyword： Fiction imagination narratology cultural history globalization

Language： ENG

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Description

People of all times and in all cultures have produced and consumed fiction in a variety of forms, not only for entertainment, but also to spread knowledge, religious or political beliefs. Furthermore, fiction has taken part in reflecting and shaping the cultural identity of communities as well as the identity of individuals. This volume aims to explore the concept and the use of fiction from different epochs, in different cultures and in different forms, both ancient and more recent. It covers a broad field of interests, from ancient literature, art, philosophy and theater to Bollywood productions, television series and modern electronic media. Twenty-three scholars from ten countries and from different areasand fields of interests in the Humanities assembled in Stockholm on a conference in August 2012 to exchange views on "Fiction in Global Contexts". This volume presents the results of their discussions. It contains fresh perspectives on issues and topics such as:

  • the nature of fiction
  • fiction and its relationship to "truth"
  • the demand for and the function and uses of fiction
  • the development of fiction from ancient to modern times
  • different forms of fiction
  • fiction in social contexts or in a gender perspective

Chapter

Preface

Here, There – and Everywhere? Eastern examples

Chinese Theories and Concepts of Fiction and the Issue of Transcultural Theories and Concepts of Fiction

Literature as a Vehicle for the Dao: Changing Perspectives of Fiction and Truth in Chinese Literature

Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji: Fate and Fiction

Fictional Spaces: Image, Language & Identity

The Fiction of the Image

Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms Behind Literary Fiction

Photons of the Human Mind: The Fiction of Personal Identity

Live Fiction: Play & Performances

Interaction Between the Reader, the Critic and the Author: The Qing Dramatist Hong Sheng’s Historical Play Changshengdian and Wu Yiyi’s Commentary

Performing Life and Live Theatre: Fiction in Popular Performances

Fiction Past and Present: Historical Perspectives

Diagnosing Fiction: From Plato to Borges

Classical Persian Literature: Fiction, Didactics or Intuitive Truth?

Historicity and Fictionality in Medieval Narrative

How the West was Won by Fiction: The Appearance of Fictional Narrative and Leisurely Reading in Western Literature (11th and 12th century)

Telling Tales: Narratology & Fictionality

Toward a Transcultural Poetics of Fiction: The Fusion of Narrative Visions in Chinese and Western Fiction Studies

General Beliefs from Fiction

Historical Fiction: Experiencing the Past, Reflecting History

The Frontiers of Fiction: Recent Developments

Unsettling Fictions: Generic Instability and Colonial Time

Whose Magic? Whose Realism? Reflections on Magical Realism in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

Confessions of the Hydra: Variations on the Concept of Fiction in Latin America

Coda: Fiction, Translation & Interaction

Fiction in Global Contexts: Translation, the Universal Language of Literature

Afterword: Fiction as a Transcultural Entity

List of Contributors

Index of Names

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