Fictional Worlds

Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties, and their reason for being.

• | By (Author): Thomas G. Pavel
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• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 1989
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 190 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780674299665