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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2021  
         
  Article:   NARRATIVE LANGUAGE AND POSSIBLE WORLDS IN POSTMODERN FICTION. A BORDERLINE STUDY OF IAN McEWAN’S THE CHILD IN TIME / LIMBAJUL NARATIV ȘI LUMILE POSIBILE ÎN FICȚIUNEA POSTMODERNĂ. UN STUDIU HIBRID AL ROMANULUI COPILUL FURAT, DE IAN McEWAN.

Authors:  ADRIANA DIANA URIAN.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2021.3.16

Published Online: 2021-09-20
Published Print: 2021-09-30
pp. 247-264

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Narrative Language and Possible Worlds in Postmodern Fiction. A Borderline Study of Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time. The present paper is a study of more traditional hermeneutics combined with a tinge of possible world modality, with the purpose of creating a thorough picture of narrative worlds and balancing it against the possible world system, with practical applications onto postmodern fiction, in Ian McEwan’s novel The Child in Time. The article focuses on exposing narrative language, worlds and characters, viewing them through Seymour Chatman’s perspective and slightly counterbalancing this approach with the possible world semantics system (as envisioned by Kripke, Lewis, Nolan, Putnam) for a diverse understanding of the inner structure and functioning of narrative text and fictional worlds.

Keywords: possible worlds, possible-world semantics, narrative worlds, fictional worlds, narrative language, fiction, postmodern fiction, fictional characters.
 
         
     
         
         
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