The paper argues that narrative functions as a valuable resource for thought and also for developing human cognition and mental work. More specifically, the paper outlines an approach to studying narratives as basic cognitive tools for thinking, and thus my contribution will continue to explore several cognitive processes that allow readers to comprehend narrative texts.
The essay summarizes the theoretical effort of the author which led to the connection between fictional worlds of narrative literature and the concept of possible worlds which was developed in modal logic. The author explains the concept of the book Heterocosmica II and the criteria of the selection of the incorporated postmodernist novels. In the conclusion he thinks about the prospect of fictional world semantics and contemporary Czech literary criticism.
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