Product Description: This volume includes 22 articles that provide an introduction to fundamental issues in the theory of fiction. It covers the most influential approaches used to demarcate the boundary between fictional and non-fictional media based on pragmatic, receptive, and contextual theories...read more

Product Description: Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines, such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology, counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of study for quite a while, counterfactual thinking has in recent years emerged as a method of study for other disciplines, most notably the social sciences...read more

Product Description: The philological and philosophical-aesthetic research area on "Literature and Knowledge" is very complex. The contributions of this book provide a survey of this research area and develop approaches to evaluate current theories and methods...read more