Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Contributors XI
5. Introduction: Under the Jealous Gaze of Truth 3
6. PART 1. FICTIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES
7. 1. Are Fictional Worlds Possible? 21
8. 2. Questions About the Nature of Fiction 30
9. 3. Fortress Fiction 39
10. 4. Literary Fictions and Philosophical Theories: The Possible-Worlds Story 48
11. PART 2. MODELS
12. 5. On Fictional Discourse 65
13. 6. The Perception of Fictional Worlds 76
14. 7. Beyond Reality and Fiction? The Fate of Dualism in the Age of (Mass) Media 91
15. 8. Models, Madness, and the Hereafter 105
16. PART 3. NAMES, GENRE, GENDER
17. 9. Characters and Their Versions 113
18. 10. Naming Names in Telling Tales 133
19. 11. Fictionality, Narration, and the Question of Genres 144
20. 12. Narratology, Narratological Criticism, and Gender 159
21. 13. The Renaissance Dialogue and Its Zero-Degree-Fictionality 165
22. PART 4. FICTIONS AND HISTORIES
23. 14. Signposts in Oral Epic: Metapragmatic and Metasemantic Signals 175
24. 15. Of Worlds and Nutshells: On Casanova's Icosameron 187
25. 16. Ironies of History: The joke of Milan Kundera 197
26. 17. The Politics of Impossible Worlds 213
27. PART 5. POETICS
28. 18. Thoughts on Aristotle's Poetics 229
29. 19. Chronotopes in Diegesis 244
30. 20. Deconstructing Bakhtin 257
31. 21. Scratching the Bronze Mirror: Looking for Traces of Fictionality in Chinese Poetics 267
32. 22. Formalist and Structuralist Activity in Poland: Tradition and Progress 274
33. PART 6. DOLEZEL AND HIS WORLDS
34. 23. An Improbable Side by Side: Dolezel and Borges in Prague 293
35. 24. Lubomfr Dolezel' s Contribution to Contemporary Literary Studies 303
36. Bibliography 311