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Fictionality-Possibility-Reality
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SYSNO ASEP 0357829 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title In a Hole in the Ground There Lived a Hobbit; or, a Few Comments on Fictional Space of Narrative and Mental Imagery Author(s) Jedličková, Alice (UCL-M) RID, ORCID, SAI Source Title Fictionality-Possibility-Reality. - Bratislava : Aleph, 2010 / Koťátko P. ; Pokorný M. ; Sabatés M. - ISBN 978-80-89491-04-9 Pages s. 251-258 Number of pages 8 s. Number of pages 290 Language eng - English Country SK - Slovakia Keywords fictionality ; fictional landscape ; mental imagery ; experientiality ; analogy Subject RIV AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision CEZ AV0Z90560517 - UCL-M (2005-2011) Annotation The nodal point of the essay is the idea of literature as a verbal media expected to "stimulate our imagination" followed by an attempt to assess general conditions of narrative representation that may result in mental imagery. Three major hypotheses are confronted (while special attention is paid to the image of fictional landscape): a saturated representation gives the reader enough cues to construct the physical appearance of the fictional world; its lacunary representation results in reader's "filling in" the gaps; the extent of mental images is controlled mainly by literary conventions. The essay suggest a fourth alternative, illuminating it by Tolkien's The Hobbit and claiming that the imaginative power of the narrative consists in the experiential mode of representation, closely interconnected with the particular preconditions and capabilities of the characters. As a result, the processes of mental imagery involve also experiential analogies. Workplace Institute of Czech Literature Contact Pavla Hartmanová, hartmanova@ucl.cas.cz ; Veronika Zemanová, zemanova@ucl.cas.cz, asep@ucl.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 828 135 Year of Publishing 2011
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