In this article it is argued that feelings are all important to the function of literature. In contradiction to music that is concerned with the inwardness of humankind, literature has, because of language, the capacity to create fictional worlds that in many respects are similar to and related to the life world within which we live. One of the most important reasons for our emotional engagemen...

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...

We introduce a novel method for the formation of fictional concepts based on the non-existence conjectures made by the HR automated theory formation system. We further introduce the notion of the typicality of an example with respect to a concept into HR, which leads to methods for ordering fictional concepts with respect to novelty, vagueness and stimulation. To test whether these measures are...

8 The intriguing nature of classical Homeric narratives has always fascinated the occidental culture 9 contributing to philosophy, history, mythology and straight forwardly to literature. However what 10 would be so intriguing about Homer's narratives' At a first gaze we shall recognize the very literal 11 appeal and aesthetic pleasure presented on every page across Homer's chants in Odyssey an...

ferdowsi's shahname is a literary work with many and varied personalities which can be converted to dramatic texts, but it needs to analyze on basis theories of dramatic characterization. characterization of the protagonist of the play, as a key element of the show has a special component such as action and motivation to handle dramatic action, a physical and mental characteristic that dis...

PURPOSE Personal narratives are common in children's conversations, recommended as the appropriate genre for early writing by educators, and part of many high-stakes tests, possibly because they tend to be better formed than fictional narratives. However, current practice in the field of speech-language pathology employs fictional narratives in assessment, intervention, and study of children wi...

Creationism about fictional entities is the doctrine that fictional entities come into existence when the fictions about them are composed: it may be contrasted both with a more platonist view according to which all potential fictional entities have always existed, and eliminativist views according to which there are no merely fictional entities. Creationism is alleged to have a number of advan...

Fact-related information contained in fictional narratives may induce substantial changes in readers’ real-world beliefs. Current models of persuasion through fiction assume that these effects occur because readers are psychologically transported into the fictional world of the narrative. Contrary to general dual-process models of persuasion, models of persuasion through fiction also imply that...

studying persian heroic epic verses affected by narrative tradition and shahname is one of the areas that can be analyzed from  different perspectives. samname which is considered as the last national epic in persian literature and apparently is written in late 7th century and early 8th century – if we accept to be written by khajooye kermani- is among these works which is similar to shahname f...