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...
This book is devoted to fictional entities or, to be more precise, fictional entities as they emerge from the literary process of storytelling. They e...
What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also both conventional and causal factors contribute in making something a picture of something else.
What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits o...
