Fictional Thinking: A Poetics & Rhetoric of Fictional Creativity in Theatre

ISBN-13: 9781845193263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 323 str.

Eli Rozik

Opis

This book offers a theory of the archaic mode of fictional thinking and a methodology for the analysis of fictional worlds. It presupposes the mutual independence of the description of a fictional world, in any language or medium, and the described fictional world. Such a world is generated by an autonomous fictional structure, which reflects the spontaneous expectations of the spectator, and thematic specification. A model of this structure is presented, comprising seven layers: personified, mythical, praxical, naive, ironic, aesthetic, and the fictional experience on the level of relationship between the fictional world and spectator. The focus throughout is on theatre fictional worlds which by their nature exhibit the most complex fictional thoughts that the human brain can generate. The theoretical insights gained for theater assumedly apply to descriptions of such worlds in any language or medium and more than a hundred fictional worlds created during 2,500 years of theater recorded history are analyzed."