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Alberto Voltolini - How Ficta Follow Fiction - 9789048172955 - V9789048172955
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How Ficta Follow Fiction

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Description for How Ficta Follow Fiction Paperback. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
This book is devoted to fictional entities or, to be more precise, fictional entities as they emerge from the literary process of storytelling. They encompass the great immortal figures in human literature—Don Quixote, Faust, Sherlock Holmes and so on—as well as the protagonists of single novels such as Anna Karenina, Emma Woodhouse and Emma Bovary and even the unknown characters in the oral tradition of storytelling developed by small communities of people for their own entertainment. This is p- sumably how Achilles, Penelope and Ulysses originated. We must also include among these figures mythological characters such as Apollo, Odin and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Philosophical Studies Series
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048172955
SKU
V9789048172955
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

Reviews for How Ficta Follow Fiction
From the reviews: "In How Ficta Follow Fiction,Voltolini presents us with one of the richest and most ingenious defences of fictional entities (ficta)." (Eros Corazza, Carleton University, in dialectica Vol. 63 (1), 2009, book symposium on A. Voltolini's How Ficta Follow Fiction) "The book will be very useful for all those who want to have a ... Read more

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