Why fiction can’t be the imaginary
If fiction is defined as what is ‘imaginary’ problems arise because the move renders the phenomenon dependent on authorial intent....
Accidental non-fiction
A narrative text sets out the romantic but tumultuous journey of A. and B. as their true affection for one...
Polemic: why argue for truth in fiction
Aristotle argued (according to notes from his lectures, later collated) that there are three distinct kinds of speech or literature. ...
On fictional worlds of Philip K. Dick (excerpted from thesis)
1. the political The principle that casts fiction as thought experiment or speculative example can be broadly applied. Whether physical,...
Unreliable narration in a possible worlds model for fiction
I define fiction by three rules concerning the sentences of a text (or propositions represented by these sentences): 1. Some...
Hierarchies of Code
Language is a kind of code dependent upon the life rhythms of the species which originated the language. Unless...
The Rules (1)
Four kinds of relations are set as the minimum needed for modelling the function of fiction in a useful way:...
Possibilia
Possibilia is the proper name given to the territories of alethic space. It entails...
Gribble
Niall: The night folds down around me. The shallow purple-black sky swirls and flickers, hums like a...
The Interview, part one
This isn’t a comprehension test sir. No, but since the second line says the same as the first, and the...