Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction

Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction

Author
Riyukta Raghunath
Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Edition
1st ed.
Year
2020
Page
XV, 224
ISBN
9783030534516,9783030534523
File Type
pdf
File Size
3.7 MiB

This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a literary genre that comprises narratives set in worlds whose histories run contrary to the history of our world, usually speculating on what would have happened had a significant historical event (such as a war) turned out differently. The author develops a systematic critical approach based on a customised model of Possible Worlds Theory supplemented by cognitive concepts that account for the different processes that readers go through when they read counterfactual historical fiction, a genre which relies heavily on pre-existing knowledge about history and culture. This book will be of interest to anyone working with Possible Worlds, including within the fields of philosophy, literary studies, stylistics, cognitive poetics, and narratology.

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