Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American NovelFictional space is the imaginal expanse of field created by fictional discourse; a space which, through ultimately self-referential and self-validating, necessarily exists in ascertainable relation to the real world outside the text. After defining his theoretical framework the author applies it to American fiction of the twentieth century. |
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The Evacuation of Fictional Space The Retreat of the PostVictorians | 59 |
Making Room for the Reader The Experiment with Paraspace | 103 |
DisEasy Peace Postmodernist Reoccupation of Fictional Space | 153 |
Notes | 190 |
Bibliography | 206 |
Index | 232 |
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Page 24 - Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.