FIKCE, SKUTEČNOST A RADIKÁLNÍ VYPRÁVĚNÍ

• Authors: Petr Koťátko

Title variants

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Fiction, reality and radical narration

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The article focuses on the nature of the worlds of narrative fiction, ways of their representation, the status and identity conditions of fictional entities and correlatively on the role of singular terms in literary texts. According to the author, the basic question providing a proper framework for addressing such topics is: what does the reader have to do (to presuppose, to accept, to imagine) in order to allow the text of narrative fiction to fulfil its literary functions? The alternative is to start with the „text itself“, i.e. sentences with their linguistic meanings (in abstraction from their literary functions), and ask what kind of material does the text provide to the interpreter, what does it enable him/her to identify and determine and what does it leave principally unidentifiable and underdetermined. According to the author, such an approach blocks the access (or makes impossible the return) to the text’s literary functions. The author defends certain specification of the interpretative attitude required by the literary functions of a text of narrative fiction from its reader. Among other things, he attempts to demonstrate its general applicability by analysing a highly non-standard type of narration (labelled „radical“).

Keywords

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FICTION; REALITY; WORLD; ENTITIES; LITERARY FUNCTIONS; NARRATION

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 72 – 96

Contributors

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Petr Koťátko

• Oddělení analytické filosofie, Filosofický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha, Czech Republic