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HOW LITERARY WORLDS ARE SHAPED - BO PETTERSSON ...

Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature
including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of
Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature  it claims  is based on
individual and shared human imagination  which creates literary worlds that blend the real and
the fantastic  mimesis and genre  often modulated by different kinds of unreliability. The main
building blocks of literary worlds are their oral  visual and written modes and three themes:
challenge  perception and relation. They are blended and inflected in different ways by
combinations of narratives and figures  indirection  thwarted aspirations  meta-usages 
hypothetical action as well as hierarchies and blends of genres and text types. Moreover 
literary worlds are not only constructed by humans but also shape their lives and reinforce
their sense of wonder. Finally  ten reasons are given in order to show how this comparative
view can be of use in literary studies. In sum  How Literary Worlds Are Shaped is the first
study to present a wide-ranging and detailed comparative account of the makings of literary
worlds.

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