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Experiencing Fictional Worlds
Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 32] 2019
► pp. 1–12

Chapter 1
Introduction

Article outline
  • 1.1From possible worlds to fictional worlds
  • 1.2Text World Theory
    • 1.2.1An introduction
    • 1.2.2The structure of Text World Theory
    • 1.2.3Text World Theory and experientiality
  • 1.4Book overview
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 21 February 2019
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