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Abbott, Edwin, 211
The Accidental (Smith), 93–94
actualization theory, 89, 92–93, 96, 97, 98–99, 101, 103, 232, 237, 274–75, 278–79, 300. See also Bally, Charles
actual world (AW), 3–4, 6–8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15–19, 24, 28, 29, 32, 33–34, 36, 53–56, 65, 74, 91, 96, 97, 101, 103, 126, 133, 135–36, 138, 138, 140–45, 148, 150n7, 157, 163, 170, 181, 188, 192, 193–94, 208, 218, 225–26, 228–30, 231–34, 236–39, 249, 251, 253–56, 258–61, 263–69, 274, 278, 299, 301, 315–17. See also alternate possible world (APW); Ryan, Marie-Laure; textual actual world (TAW); textual alternate possible world (TAPW); textual possible world (TPW); Wang, W. Michelle
aesthetics, 132–33, 136, 148–49, 203–4, 210–11, 214, 218, 219, 298, 305, 316
affordance, 118–19, 320. See also Gibson, James J.
À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 64, 122
Alber, Jan, 26, 32, 67, 115, 157–76, 319
alethic system, 3–4, 11, 36, 219, 238–39, 275, 279–81; impossibility in, 4, 13, 20, 157–61, 164–66, 169–70, 205–9, 220, 253, 279–80; necessity in, 4; possibility in, 4, 20, 23, 205–8, 212, 253, 274, 279–80
Alexandria Quartet (Durrell), 203
algorithm, 296, 302–6, 309–12, 321
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 21, 214
“All You Zombies” (Heinlein), 32, 166–70
Alston, Judi, 261–64, 262, 266, 269n3
alternate possible world (APW), 3–4, 33, 141, 157, 159, 161–73, 237, 253–54, 299, 301, 307. See also actual world (AW); textual actual world (TAW); textual alternate possible world (TAPW); textual possible world (TPW)
Amis, Martin, 25
analytical philosophy, 179–80, 182, 196, 229
Anthem (Rand), 240
anticipation novels, 231–36, 244n13
Appel, Alfred, 106n13
Aristotle, 34, 53–54, 57, 62, 274, 317
Arma 3 Altis Life, 280–81, 285
artificial intelligence, 12
At Swim-Two-Birds (O’Brien), 32, 133, 135–50
Attebury, Brian, 222n10
Atwood, Margaret, 30, 96, 101–2, 240
Auster, Paul, 137
Austin, J. L., 57
Austin, Michael, 103
The Autumn of the Patriarch (Márquez), 95
Avant-Pop, 260–61
avatars, 15, 26–27, 33, 36, 193–94, 261, 272, 275–88, 277, 306
axiological system, 4, 11, 36, 238–39, 275, 280, 282, 284–88
Babel, 65
“The Babysitter” (Coover), 25, 159
Bacon, Francis, 232
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 92, 103, 132, 308
“The Ballad of the Flash Stockman,” 17
Bally, Charles, 89, 98. See also actualization theory
Barrie, J. M., 203
Barsalou, Lawrence, 116
Barthelme, Donald, 309
Barthes, Roland, 2, 51–52, 81, 165
Bartsch, Christoph, 33, 179–200, 319
Baum, L. Frank, 203
Beagle, Peter, 206
Bear, Greg, 24
Beck, Sally, 105n7
Beckett, Samuel, 17, 29, 76, 78–81, 95
Beckford, William, 215
Beerbohm, Max, 203
Before Reading (Rabinowitz), 304
Being John Malkovich (Jonze), 105n6
Bell, Alice, 13, 26, 27–28, 35–36, 249–71, 297, 315, 320
“Better Life” (Wright), 276, 277, 278. See also Second Life
“Beyond Fictional Worlds” (Walsh), 114–15
bidirectional exchange, 212–13
Birke, Dorothee, 252
Black, Cilla, 105n7
Bleak House (Dickens), 21
blending, 162–63
The Blind Assassin (Atwood), 30, 101–2
Bloch, Robert, 96
Bode, Christoph, 172n6
Bohman-Kalaja, Kimberly, 137–38
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, 77
Bonaparte, Marie, 100
Bonheim, Helmut, 106n12
Boolean logic, 303
Bordwell, David, 24
Bradley, Philip, 50
Braga, Corin, 244n12
Brave New World (Huxley), 232
Bremond, Claude, 19
Breton, André, 204
Bricker, Philip, 5–6, 50–51, 54
“Broad Thoughts from a Home” (Johnson), 32, 164–65, 170
Brooks, Cleanth, 17
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), 239–40
Brown, Stuart, 148
Buckland, Warren, 243n7
Burgess, Anthony, 229
Bush, Glen Paul, 198n11
Butler, Octavia, 240
Caillois, Roger, 132, 275, 319. See also ilinx; ludus; paidia
calculus, language as, 2–3, 13–14, 52–53, 55–56, 315. See also Hintikka, Jaakko
Call of Duty: Black Ops III, 291n22
Campbell, Andy, 261–64, 262, 266, 269n3
Capote, Truman, 12
Caracciolo, Marco, 30–31, 113–31, 160–61, 163, 169–70, 320
Carroll, Lewis, 21, 203, 205–6, 214, 221n7
The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Calvino), 137
Catch 22, 287
causal loop, 166–69
Celtic mythology, 143–46
Chekhov, Anton, 92
Chomsky, Noam, 68
Christ, Birte, 252
chronotope, 308
Ciccoricco, David, 297–98
Clearance (Campbell and Alston), 261–64, 262, 266, 269n3
Clegg, Christian, 101
Cline, Ernest, 204
Clissman, Anne, 137
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), 229
Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), 65
Clute, John, 205–6
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 208, 214
completeness, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 28, 29, 62, 74–81, 134, 226, 230, 254, 258, 274, 280, 285, 311
Conrad, Joseph, 95
contextual frame theory, 97. See also Emmott, Catherine
Cortázar, Julio, 96
counterfactual historical fiction, 22–23, 24, 26, 251
counterfactuals, 4–5, 10, 12, 16–17, 22–23, 24, 72, 180, 192, 217, 244n11
counterpart theory, 26, 27, 180, 188, 278
Coyle, William, 204
Cresswell, M. J., 56
Crowley, John, 217
The Cultural Logic of Computation (Golumbia), 296
Currie, Mark, 197nn6–7
Dancygier, Barbara, 98, 106n11
Dante, 162
Danto, Arthur C., 88–89, 182–83
The Dead Father (Barthelme), 309
deconstruction, 211
Defoe, Daniel, 227, 234, 237, 243n4, 305
deictic shift theory, 97–98, 101
De interpretatione (Aristotle), 57
De Jaegher, Hanne, 119–21
DeLillo, Don, 102–3
deontic system, 4, 11, 238–41, 275, 282–84, 288
Derrida, Jacques, 34, 201, 319
Descartes, René, 230
Dick, Philip K., 204
Di Paolo, Ezequiel, 119–21. See also social cognition
Disney Company, 72
The Dispossessed (Le Guin), 228
distance, 65–68
Doctor Faustus (Mann), 99
Dohrn, Daniel, 17
Doležel, Lubomír, 10–11, 13, 15, 22, 28–29, 34, 37, 47–61, 66–67, 71, 74, 76, 83n10, 113, 134, 157–60, 170n1, 180, 206, 211–13, 226–27, 238–39, 253, 279, 300, 304–8, 310, 318; and bidirectional exchange, 212–13; literary transduction in the work of, 15, 244n11
Donnellan, Keith, 296
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich, 17, 94, 239–40
The Double (Dostoevsky), 94
doxastic worlds, 91
Dungeons and Dragons, 289n2
Dunsany, Eighteenth Baron of (Edward Plunkett), 203, 215
Durrell, Lawrence, 203
dying in the first person, 161
Eco, Umberto, 11–12, 15, 34, 48, 56, 89–90, 91, 97, 105n10, 113, 157–59, 181, 201, 206, 244n9
ecological psychology, 116, 118, 320. See also Gibson, James J.
Edelman, Gerald, 148
ekphrasis, 102
Eligible (Sittenfeld), 72–73
Elleström, Lars, 312n6
The Embodied Mind (Varela, Thompson, Rosch), 118
embodiment, 116, 118–19, 120, 122–28, 160–61, 163, 169–70, 288, 320
Emmott, Catherine, 96–97
enactivist theory of cognition, 30–31, 32, 113, 116–20, 122, 123, 126–29, 160, 164, 170
“The Enchanter” (Nabokov), 100
epistemic system, 4, 11, 36, 98, 238, 241, 275, 281, 284
experiential background, 160, 163, 169–70, 194. See also Caracciolo, Marco
experiential feel, 160, 164, 169–70, 194. See also Caracciolo, Marco
The Experientiality of Narrative (Caracciolo), 117
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 229, 240
fairy tales, 65, 66, 100, 143, 206, 209, 229, 236, 239, 280, 284, 306, 309
The Fantastic (Todorov), 213
fantasy, 33–34, 66, 134, 165, 181, 186, 192, 193–94, 201–24, 236, 239, 280, 288, 319–20
fantasy studies, 201
fantasy world, 186, 192, 193–94, 196, 201–24
Fatherland (Harris), 251
Faulkner, William, 17
Fermi, Enrico, 166
Fforde, Jasper, 71
fictionality, 249, 252–56, 257, 259, 264, 266, 267, 299–300, 312n2
fictional world, 296–97, 300–301, 304–11; extensional, 304–5, 308; intensional, 304–6, 308, 310; one-person, 227. See also Doležel, Lubomír
Fictional Worlds (Pavel), 9, 47
Fight Club (Fincher), 105n6
Fincher, David, 105n6
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 319–20
first-person narration, 57, 184–90, 261–63, 265–67
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 202
Flash fiction, 250
Flatland (Abbott), 211
Flaubert, Gustave, 57, 66, 75, 91, 285, 316–17, 321
Flood, Robert, 203
Fludernik, Monika, 97
forking-path narratives, 23–24, 26, 172n6. See also Bordwell, David; multiple endings
Forster, E. M., 69–70
Fořt, Bohumil, 14–15
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Fowles), 25, 65
Freudian psychoanalysis, 100
Frow, John, 310
Fuentes, Carlos, 23
Futurama, 71
future narratives (FNs), 172n6
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 52
Galbraith, Mary, 97
The Game of the Impossible (Irwin), 221n6
games, 132, 135, 137, 142, 146, 147, 148–49, 272–91
game theory, 211
Gass, William, 137
Genette, Gérard, 63, 181, 184, 252
genre, 306–12
Gibson, James J., 116, 118–19, 320. See also ecological psychology
Gill, R. B., 230
Girl in Landscape (Lethem), 31, 117, 123–26
Gomel, Elana, 168–69
Gordon, Douglas, 102
Grahame-Smith, Seth, 71
Grammaire du Décaméron (Todorov), 19
Grant, John, 205–6
graphical user interface, 28
Gray, Alasdair, 137
Greenberg, Clement, 319–20
Grishakova, Marina, 29–30, 88–109, 117, 318
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 20, 64, 215
Gumbrecht, Hans-Ulrich, 171n2
Guthrie, Tim, 256–61, 257, 263, 266
Hacking, Ian, 51
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 11, 51, 53, 206, 321
Harris, Robert, 251
Hayles, Katherine, 312n1
Hayot, Eric, 307–8
Heavy Rain, 287
Heidegger, Martin, 1, 52, 116, 320
Heinlein, Robert A., 32, 166–70, 228–29
Heinze, Rüdiger, 196n2
Hemingway, Ernest, 69–70
Herman, David, 63, 113–14, 116, 117, 137, 318, 320
Heterocosmica (Doležel), 10–11
Hintikka, Jaakko, 1, 2, 3, 13–14, 52–53, 55–56, 211, 315
Hogan, Patrick Colm, 161
horizon, 228–29, 237. See also Suvin, Darko
“Le Horla” (Maupassant), 215
Hotel World (Smith), 95
Howell, Robert, 296
How to Do Things with Words (Austin), 57
Hume, Kathryn, 205
Husserl, Edmund, 52
Huxley, Aldous, 232
hyperlinks, 249–50, 252, 254–56, 257–59, 261, 266–69, 320
hypernarrative, 299
hypertext, 249–51, 256–57, 260–61, 266, 272–73, 299
hypertext fiction, 27–28, 35–36, 250, 256, 257
hypertext theory, 252
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Calvino), 25
ilinx, 132, 319–20. See also Caillois, Roger
immersion, 27, 29, 62, 74, 81, 180, 185, 216, 249, 255, 257, 266–67, 272, 276, 277, 278–79, 288, 299, 318
impossible world, 5–6, 14, 18, 67, 83n7, 157–60, 197n3, 205–10, 220, 252–53, 319
In Cold Blood (Capote), 12
Inferno (Dante), 162
in real life (IRL), 278–79, 281–83. See also real life (RL)
intentional fallacy, 237–38
interactivity, 272, 279, 287, 299, 320
International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, 203, 221n4
intrauniverse relations, 135–36, 142, 143–47, 227–28, 231. See also modal logic
An Introduction to Fictional Worlds Theory (Fořt), 14–15
Irwin, William Robert, 221n6
iq84 (Murakami), 290n7
Ireland, 143–45
The Irish Times, 144
Ironweed (Kennedy), 203
Jackson, Rosemary, 222n14
Jacob, François, 88
Jacobs, Karen, 105n9
La jalousie (Robbe-Grillet), 85n18
James, Edward, 204
James, Henry, 12, 20–21, 102, 214
Jenkins, Henry, 70
Johnson, Billy, 269n3
Johnson, B. S., 32, 164–65, 170
Johnson, Samuel, 210–11
Jonze, Spike, 105n6
Joyce, James, 34, 105n8, 201–2, 203, 319–20
Jurassic Park films, 243n7
Kafka, Franz, 64
Kant, Immanuel, 33
Kanyó, Zoltan, 58
The Kashmir Observer, 266
Kennedy, William, 203
kinetic poetry, 250
Kintsch, Walter, 127
Kirkham, Richard, 304
Knight, Lionel Charles, 74
Koťátko, Petr, 50–51
Kripke, Saul, 3, 4, 8, 23, 47, 54, 55, 56, 72, 211, 296
Kronfeld, Amichai, 296
“The Kugelmass Episode” (Allen), 25
Kukkonen, Karin, 160–61
Kumar, Krishan, 240
Kusch, Martin, 52
Lanark (Gray), 137
Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts (Semino), 13
The Language of New Media (Manovich), 296–97
Language of Stories (Dancygier), 106n11
Laokoon or the Limits of Poetry and Painting (Lessing), 320
The Last Unicorn (Beagle), 206
Laudan, Larry, 48
Lavocat, Françoise, 14, 36, 272–95, 318–19
law of excluded middle, 5, 22, 66, 74, 229
law of noncontradiction, 5, 22, 66, 78, 157–60, 161, 183, 229
Lawrence, D. H., 202
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comic book series), 71
Lear, Edward, 205–6
Lee, Harper, 73–74
Le Guin, Ursula K., 24, 215, 228
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 3, 52, 54, 56, 157, 218, 272, 289n3; compossibility in the work of, 218, 274
Lessing, Doris, 221n4
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 320
Lethem, Jonathan, 31, 117, 123–26
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 201–2
Lewis, C. S., 203, 210, 212, 216, 221
Lewis, David, 3, 5, 7–8, 10, 12, 15–18, 22, 24, 33, 50–51, 55, 96, 133, 180, 182, 184, 189–90, 316
The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Bonaparte), 100
Lilith (MacDonald), 220
The Limits of Interpretation (Eco), 158–59
Linden Lab, 276, 280–83. See also Second Life
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Lewis), 216
Literature and Possible Worlds (Maître), 12, 20
Little, Big (Crowley), 217
locus, 228–29, 237. See also Suvin, Darko
“Locus, Horizon, and Orientation” (Suvin), 228
logical impossibility, 4, 13, 20, 157–61, 164–66, 169–70, 205–9, 220, 253, 279–80
The Logic of Life (Jacob), 88
Logique du récit (Bremond), 19
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 12, 34, 70, 203–4, 212, 216, 300, 319–21
Lorente, Joaquín Martínez, 230
Loux, Michael J., 4
The Lovely Bones (Sebold), 32, 161–63, 169–70
Lucas Company, 72
ludus, 275, 281, 286, 288, 319. See also Caillois, Roger
Lynch, David, 170
Lyotard, Jean-François, 298
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 66, 75, 285, 316–17, 321
The Magician’s Nephew (Lewis), 221
“The Magic Poker” (Coover), 309
La maison de rendez-vous (Robbe-Grillet), 66–67
Malone Dies (Beckett), 17
Mann, Thomas, 99
Margolin, Uri, 94–95
Márquez, Gabriel García, 95, 204
Martin, Thomas L., 1, 13–14, 33–34, 201–24, 315, 319
Marvell, Andrew, 210
Maupassant, Guy de, 215
maximal departure, 31–32, 134, 136, 141–42, 144, 147
McCawley, James, 300
McCormick, Peter J., 312n2
McHale, Brian, 25, 98, 136–38, 318
McIntyre, Dan, 97
McKillip, Patricia, 209
McLaughlin, Robert, 268
mediacy, 120–21
Melia, Joseph, 54
Melissa and Melissa (Allen), 274
Melville, Herman, 99
Mendlesohn, Farah, 204, 215–17
metafiction, 28, 67, 96, 142, 149, 253, 260, 279
metalepsis, 25–26, 66, 95, 100, 137, 278, 318
metaphor, 115, 117, 118, 127, 210, 220, 229, 233, 259, 272, 304, 306, 310, 317
metaverses, 36, 275–79, 283, 290n8. See also Second Life
microfiction, 68–70
Miéville, China, 216
Mihailescu, Calin Andrei, 230–31
Miller, Carolyn, 310
mimesis, 53, 75, 76–77, 80–81, 98, 126–27, 142, 206, 210–11, 215, 261, 273
minimal departure, 29, 31, 72, 80, 127, 134, 136, 141–42, 181–82, 188–89, 254, 258, 307–9
Mitchell, David, 65
MMOGs, 275, 283–84. See also Second Life
MMORPGs, 36, 275, 284–85, 291n21. See also World of Warcraft
Moby Dick (Melville), 99
modal logic, 4, 8, 11, 13, 35, 47, 54–55, 62, 89, 126–27, 179–80, 182–83, 185–86, 228, 229, 231, 238–40, 274–75, 279–88, 299–301, 305, 307–8, 310; accessibility in, 4, 8, 12, 14–15, 20–22, 31, 65, 126, 134–36, 145, 147, 148, 157, 170, 188, 193, 226, 231–34, 235, 236, 239, 244n15, 274, 276. See also Kripke, Saul; Ryan, Marie-Laure
modal realism, 6, 7–8, 15, 50–51, 96. See also Lewis, David
model theory, 211
modernist fiction, 91–92, 94, 203
Modern Library, 203
Molloy (Beckett), 17
“Les mondes possibles du texte” (Vaina), 11. See also Eco, Umberto; Ryan, Marie-Laure
monstrosity, 88
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein), 228–29
More, Thomas, 35, 230, 233–34, 237, 242
Morris, Charles, 50
Morris, William, 203
Morrison, Toni, 96
Morson, Gary Saul, 89
motor resonance, 124, 128. See also Taylor, Lawrence J.; Zwaan, Rolf A.
Mulligan Stew (Sorrentino), 25
Munslow, Alun, 52
Münsterberg, Hugo, 102–3
Murakami, Haruki, 290n7
“Murders in the Rue Morgue” (Poe), 100
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 30, 95, 96, 99–101
narrated world, 179, 181–89, 192, 217
narrative, 296–306, 309, 311–12
narrative contradictions, 18, 32, 158–61, 164–65, 169–70
narrative theory, 2–3, 8–24, 35, 47, 62–63, 67, 81, 89, 113, 115–17, 122, 127, 179, 182, 186, 196, 211, 216, 225, 229, 241–42, 272, 321
narrative universals, 121. See also Sternberg, Meir
narrativity, 179, 182–83, 239, 273, 300–301
narratology. See narrative theory
narrators, 10, 17–18, 30, 64, 82n1, 84n15, 90–96, 98–10, 104n3, 106n11, 120–21, 124–25, 137, 139–41, 149n5, 158, 160–63, 166, 168, 171n3, 173n10, 184–95, 214, 253, 256, 265–67, 299; dead, 95, 160–63, 169–70, 171n4; nonhuman, 95; unreliable, 18, 95, 99, 192. See also virtual voice
Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), 232–33
New Atlantis (Bacon), 232
The New York Trilogy (Auster), 137
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 51
The Nigger of the “Narcissus” (Conrad), 95
Niven, Larry, 24
Noë, Alva, 127
nonfiction novel, 266–67
nonporous worlds, 218
Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky), 17
Nünning, Ansgar, 313n7
O’Brien, Flann, 32, 133, 135–50
Occam’s razor, 7
The Ohio School, 318
Olsen, Lance, 256–61, 257, 263, 266
Olson, Greta, 163
ontological ambiguity, 30, 35, 255, 263
ontological flickering, 35, 249, 255, 256–61, 264, 267, 320. See also Bell, Alice
ontological merging, 35, 255, 264–67, 320. See also Bell, Alice
ontological refreshment, 35, 255, 261–64, 267, 320. See also Bell, Alice
Oryx and Crake (Atwood), 240
Oţoiu, Adrian, 146
Oulipo, 319
paidia, 275. See also Caillois, Roger
panfictionality, 267
Parable of the Sower (Butler), 240
Parker, Jeff, 258
Partee, Barbara H., 55
Pavel, Thomas G., 9, 15, 27, 37, 47, 113, 134, 157, 211, 227, 237, 280, 285, 300, 309, 315–22; salient structures in the work of, 213
Peake, Mervyn, 212
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 33, 201
Perdido Street Station (Miéville), 216
Perry, John, 55
Phelan, James, 318
phenomenology, 117, 118, 128, 161–65, 170, 219
Phillips, Elizabeth, 100
The Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 215
Pirandello, Luigi, 25
Planck, Max, 202
Plantinga, Alvin, 3
play, 120–21, 132, 136, 141–44, 147, 148, 165, 170, 209, 220, 249, 252–53, 261, 319
plot, 115, 123, 125, 181–82, 185–86, 194, 231, 241–42, 255, 274, 279, 301, 307
The Plot against America (Roth), 23
Plunkett, Edward. See Dunsany, Eighteenth Baron of (Edward Plunkett)
Poe, Edgar Allan, 100
Poetics (Aristotle), 62
Pohl, Frederik, 24
Poiesis and Possible Worlds (Martin), 13–14, 217–18
point of view, 257–58, 261–63, 265, 279, 300
Point Omega (DeLillo), 102–3
Pope, Alexander, 220
Popova, Yanna, 120–21, 122, 126
The Possible and the Actual (Jacob), 88
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory (Ryan), 12, 19, 21–22, 75, 96–97, 127, 296, 299, 307
“Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences” Nobel symposium (1986), 8, 54
“Possible Worlds in Literary Semantics” (Pavel), 9, 47
Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (Ronen), 13
Possible Worlds of Fiction and History (Doležel), 13, 22
The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Bell), 13, 27–28, 297, 315, 320
Possible Worlds of the Fantastic (Traill), 13, 213–17
possible worlds theory, 1–39, 53–57, 67, 88–91, 96–97, 113, 157–76, 182, 205–15, 217–18, 225–31, 252–56, 267, 274–75, 296–313, 315–22
postmodernism, 168–69, 240, 268, 298, 309, 319
postmodernist fiction, 24–26, 27, 30, 31, 35–36, 66, 71, 75, 91, 132–38, 142, 147, 148–49, 158, 170n1, 204, 229–30, 251, 255, 260, 268, 318–19
“Postscript to ‘Truth in Fiction’” (Lewis), 17
poststructuralism, 1, 3, 48, 81, 316, 319
pragmatics, 48–50, 57, 216, 253, 299
Pratchett, Terry, 204
Pratt, Mary Louise, 69
prehension, 90. See also Whitehead, Alfred North
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 71, 73
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Grahame-Smith), 71
Prince, Gerald, 69
principle of amelioration, 234, 235, 236–38, 244n15
principle of maximal departure. See maximal departure
principle of minimal departure. See minimal departure
Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (Bakhtin), 92
Psycho (Bloch), 96
Punday, Daniel, 28, 37, 289n2, 296–314, 320–21
Putnam, Hilary, 296
Queen of the Street (Beck), 105n7
Quine, Willard Van Orman, 1
Rabelais, François, 214
Rabinowitz, Peter, 304, 307, 318
Rabkin, Eric, 208
Rainbow Six Siege, 291n22
Rand, Ayn, 240
realism, 50–51, 53–54, 201–6, 209–11, 280, 285, 288, 309, 316
recentering, 16, 18, 27, 35, 96, 101, 133, 140–43, 180, 212, 232, 237, 249, 253–59, 261, 263, 265, 279, 299. See also Ryan, Marie-Laure; Wang, W. Michelle
Reference and Computation (Kronfeld), 296
relevance theory, 114–15. See also Sperber, Dan; Wilson, Deirdre
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro), 99
Remix, 250, 268. See also Navas, Eduardo
Republic (Plato), 35, 234, 237, 242
Rescher, Nicholas, 7, 133, 211
The Rhetoric of Fictionality (Walsh), 114
Rhetorics of Fantasy (Mendlesohn), 215–17
Richardson, Brian, 95, 105n4, 318
Ricoeur, Paul, 80
Rivers, Kenneth, 198n10, 198nn12–13
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 66–67, 85n18, 170
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 227, 234, 237, 243n4, 305
Rohde, Marieke, 119–21
The Role of the Reader (Eco), 11–12
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 71, 72
Ronen, Ruth, 13, 15, 67, 75, 97, 157–59, 179–80, 182, 185, 296, 300, 317
Rosch, Eleanor, 118–19, 121, 160
Roth, Philip, 23
“Rothschild’s Fiddle” (Chekhov), 92
Le rouge et le noir (Stendhal), 75
Rowling, J. K., 12, 70, 159–60, 169, 204
Run Lola Run, 23
Rushdie, Salman, 96
Russell, Bertrand, 1, 51, 53, 211, 296
Ryan, Marie-Laure, 11, 12, 15–17, 19–22, 24, 25–26, 27–28, 29, 31, 34–35, 37, 58, 62–87, 90–91, 92, 96–97, 113, 115, 116–17, 127, 132–36, 157–58, 165, 180–81, 185–86, 192, 193, 211–12, 227, 229, 231–34, 237, 239, 241, 244n15, 251, 253–55, 257, 259, 267, 279, 296, 299, 300–301, 307–9, 310–11, 315, 318
salient structures, 213
Sargent, Lyman Tower, 226–28, 238, 243nn4–5
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 2, 5, 33–34, 201
Schaeffer, Jean-Marie, 80, 317
Schiller, Friedrich, 133
A School for Fools (Sokolov), 95–96
Schuknecht, Mattison, 34–35, 225–46, 318
science fiction, 21–22, 24, 38, 64, 66, 88, 117, 123–26, 165–67, 181, 186, 203, 207, 211–12, 228, 229–30, 233–34, 235, 236, 238, 309
scientism, 202
Searle, John, 49
Sebald, W. G., 251
Sebold, Alice, 32, 161–63, 169–70
Second Life, 15, 27, 36, 273, 275–84
Sefler, George, 230
Sellors, C. Paul, 243n7
semantics, 48–58, 67–68, 81, 113, 158, 180, 208, 211, 216, 218, 225–26, 228, 239, 298, 301, 305, 309; narrative, 12, 18–20, 28; one-world, 53–54, 208, 226; plurality-of-worlds, 53–54; possible worlds, 226, 229–30
Semino, Elena, 13
Senior, Bill, 221n4
sensorimotor skills, 170. See also embodiment
Shakespeare, William, 11, 51, 53, 71, 72, 74, 75, 189, 206, 209, 321
Shea, Thomas, 137
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 206, 220
Shippey, Tom, 221n1
“The Shipwreck” (Falconer), 140, 144
Shusterman, Richard, 132
The Silver Chair (Lewis), 210
Sim, Stuart, 168
The Simpsons, 71
The Sims, 287
Singh, Jyoti, 265
Sittenfeld, Curtis, 72–73
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello), 25
size, 68–74
Sliding Doors, 23
Slinin, J. A., 54
small worlds, 55–56
social cognition, 119–22. See also De Jaegher, Hanne; Di Paolo, Ezequiel; Rohde, Marieke
social interaction, 116, 118–22
Socrates, 53
Sokolov, Sasha, 95–96
Sorrentino, Gilbert, 25
The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner), 17
Spenser, Edmund, 210
Sperber, Dan, 114. See also relevance theory
Stableford, Brian, 165–66
Stalnaker, Robert, 55
Stanzel, Franz Karl, 161
The Star Rover (London), 33, 184, 186–98
Star Trek, 242
Star Wars, 64, 70, 72, 204, 229, 300, 312
Stendhal, 75
Stephenson, Neal, 290n8
Step Inside (Black), 105n7
Sternberg, Meir, 121. See also narrative universals
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 216
storytime, 181
storyworld, 8, 15, 18–19, 29, 31, 33, 62–85, 113–17, 123, 127–28, 160, 163, 166, 169, 311, 317, 320. See also Herman, David
Storyworlds across Media (Thon and Ryan), 310–11
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 216
A Stroll through the Worlds of Animals and Men (von Uexküll), 117
structuralism, 9, 48, 181, 214, 316
subjective narration, 57
suspense, anomalous, 129
suspension of disbelief, 208–9
Suvin, Darko, 228–29, 233–34, 236–37
Swartz, Norman, 50
Swift, Jonathan, 20, 64, 214, 215
Swinfen, Ann, 221n4
“Sylvan’s Box” (Priest), 158, 169
syntactics, 50
Tabone, Mark A., 244n9
Tamagotchi, 287
Tamir-Ghez, Nomi, 100
Taylor, Lawrence J., 124. See also motor resonance
Tegmark, Max, 24
“Tell-Tale Rhythms” (Caracciolo), 122
temporality, 161, 165–69, 179–200, 207, 301–2, 320
temporal parts, 182–84
10:01 (Olsen and Guthrie), 256–61, 257, 263, 266
Terra Nostra (Fuentes), 23
text theory, 56
textual actual world (TAW), 19–20, 33, 37, 90–91, 133, 135, 138–44, 138, 139, 180–81, 185–86, 188–93, 196, 231, 233, 238, 241, 250–51, 254–55, 256–61, 263–67, 300–301. See also actual world (AW); alternate possible world (APW); Ryan, Marie-Laure; textual alternate possible world (TAPW); textual possible world (TPW); Wang, W. Michelle
textual alternate possible world (TAPW), 135, 138, 139–40, 140–47. See also actual world (AW); alternate possible world (APW); Ryan, Marie-Laure; textual actual world (TAW); textual possible world (TPW); Wang, W. Michelle
textualism, 1, 34, 65, 73–74, 81, 201
textual possible world (TPW), 19, 37, 132. See also actual world (AW); alternate possible world (APW); Ryan, Marie-Laure; textual actual world (TAW); textual alternate possible world (TAPW); Wang, W. Michelle
textual reference world (TRW), 237
Théodicée (Theodicy) (Leibniz), 3, 272, 289n3
La théorie littéraire des mondes possibles (Lavocat), 14
theory of fiction, 2–3, 12, 15–18, 47
third-person narration, 57, 64, 256
Thompson, Evan, 118–19, 121, 160
Thon, Jan-Noël, 159–60, 261, 310–11
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (Carroll), 205–6, 221n7
time, 179–200; discourse, 181, 196; external, 183–85, 189–90, 193–94, 196; narrated, 180, 186, 189–93; personal, 183–86, 189–90, 193–94, 196; textual actual, 33, 181, 185–86, 189–96
Time’s Arrow (Amis), 25
Times of India, 266
time travel, 33, 66, 165–70, 181, 184, 186, 189–90, 195, 196
Titus Groan (Peake), 212
Todorov, Tzvetan, 19, 20–21, 33, 82n4, 192, 213–14, 217, 310
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 73–74
Tolkien, J. R. R., 134, 203, 206, 208–9, 212, 214, 215, 220, 273, 319; The Lord of the Rings, 12, 34, 70, 203–4, 212, 216, 300, 319–21
Tolstoy, Count Lyov Nikolayevich, 91, 97
To Set a Watchman (Lee), 73–74
total worlds, 55
Toynbee, Philip, 203
Traherne, Thomas, 210
Traill, Nancy, 13, 20–21, 213–17
transfictionality, 11, 29, 64, 65, 70–74, 81, 230–31. See also Saint-Gelais, Richard
Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture (Thon), 311
transmedia storytelling, 70, 72, 310–12
Transparent Things (Nabokov), 95
transuniverse relations, 135–36, 227–28, 231–45. See also modal logic
transworld identity, 26, 143, 147, 149n4
“Truth in Fiction” (Lewis), 10, 12, 15–16
Turner, Mark, 162–63
The Turn of the Screw (James), 12, 20–21, 102, 214
24 Hour Psycho (Gordon), 102
Umwelt, 116, 117–19, 124–25, 320. See also von Uexküll, Jakob
undecidable relations, 136, 147, 149. See also modal logic
“Univers de fiction” (Pavel), 285
The Unnamable (Beckett), 17, 95
unnatural narrative, 181, 184, 186, 189, 196; school of, 80, 115, 319
Unnatural Narrative (Alber), 67
unreliability, 18, 95, 99, 192
Useful Fictions (Austin), 103
Utopia (More), 35, 230, 233–34, 237, 242
Utopian Studies, 225
Vaina, Lucia, 11
Van Dijk, Teun, 127
Van Heijenoort, Jean, 52
Van Looy, Jan, 27
Varela, Francisco, 118–19, 121, 160
Vathek (Beckford), 215
Vaughan, Christopher, 148
video games, 272–91, 303–6, 311–12
virtual actual world (VAW), 278
virtual narrative, 89, 92, 101, 103, 318. See also Ryan, Marie-Laure
virtual possible world (VPW), 278
virtual voice, 30, 89, 92–100, 318. See also Grishakova, Marina
virtual world (VW), 58, 180, 185, 236, 274–91
von Uexküll, Jakob, 116, 117–19
Vultur, Ioana, 80
Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 29, 76, 78–81
Walsh, Richard, 84n18, 114–15, 126, 320
Walton, Kendall, 213
Wang, W. Michelle, 31–32, 132–56, 319
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 97
Warhol, Robin, 318
Waugh, Patricia, 132, 142, 145
We (Zamyatin), 229
We Are Angry (Prickitt), 264–67, 265
Wegner, Phillip, 229–30, 244n9
Wernimont, Jaqueline, 230
White, Hayden, 52
Whitehead, Alfred North, 90. See also prehension
Wilson, Deirdre, 114. See also relevance theory
Wilson, Edmund, 203
Winterson, Jeanette, 96
wish world, 19–20, 237, 245n16
Wittig, Monique, 95
Wolf, Mark, 222n9
Wolfe, Gary K., 209
Wolterstorff, Nicholas, 49, 74, 75
world. See actual world (AW); alternate possible world (APW); doxastic worlds; fantasy world; fictional world; impossible world; narrated world; nonporous worlds; possible worlds theory; secondary world; small worlds; storyworld; subworld; textual actual world (TAW); total worlds; virtual world (VW)
World of Warcraft, 36, 273, 275, 286
Wyndham, John, 24
Yagisawa, Takashi, 55
Yakobi, Tamar, 99
YouTube, 285
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 229
Zipes, Jack, 222n14
Zuleika Dobson (Beerbohm), 203
Zunshine, Lisa, 162
Zwaan, Rolf A., 124, 128. See also motor resonance