Aesthetics and Ethics Intertwined: Fictional and Non-Fictional Worlds
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
How Fictional Worlds Are Created
Both adults and children have the ability to not only think about reality but also use their imaginations and create fictional worlds. This article describes the process by which world creation happens, drawing from philosophical and psychological treatments of this issue. First, world creators recognize the need to create a fictional world, as when starting a pretend game or opening a novel. T...
متن کاملThe Permeability of Fictional Worlds
Real people sometimes appear in fiction, for example, Napoleon in War and Peace. Readers may also believe that a person who never actually appears in a novel could potentially appear there. In two experiments, we find evidence that readers think that a real person could appear in specific novels and physically interact with a character. This effect is magnified when the person and character sha...
متن کاملThe Representational Challenges of Fictional Worlds
Modern computer games often have a strong narrative structure to the progress of their gameplay. In some genres, story is at the forefront of the interaction. As game makers seek to add new capabilities for procedurally generated content to their new releases, work on interactive narrative is growing in significance both as a basic research topic as well as a source for insight into the creatio...
متن کاملThe Intuitive Cosmology of Fictional Worlds
Children spend much of their lives immersed in fiction, as they engage with stories in fairy tales, books, movies, and television shows. Because of this immersion, developmental psychologists have long been interested in how children make sense of fictional characters such as Batman and SpongeBob SquarePants. For an adult, there is a sharp division between what is real and what is not, but this...
متن کاملFictional and Non Fictional Television Celebrates Earth Day: Or, Politics Is Comedy Plus Pretense
While there is much new work in the field of communications that challenges such distinctions, many scholars who study the medium still assume a clear and natural separation between fictional and non-fictional television. Falling into the former category are most prime-time shows, specials, movies and other broadcasts serving, it is assumed, primarily as entertainment. Further, many scholars as...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Interlitteraria
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2228-4729,1406-0701
DOI: 10.12697/il.2017.22.2.3