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9781839541469: Can Fiction Change the World?: 29
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ISBN 10: 1839541466 ISBN 13: 9781839541469
Casa editrice: Legenda, 2025

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Can fiction change the world? Does it in fact do so? From Don Quixote's delusions to Emma Bovary's romantic daydreams, fiction has often portrayed its own effects in negative terms, while contemporary anxieties about video games or virtual worlds revive ancient fears of the confusion between fiction and reality. Beyond these representations and denunciations, there is ample evidence of the influence of fictional universes on real lives, identities, and social practices. Drawn from varied cultures and media, the examples studied here include the political fictions of premodern Japan, uses of fiction in legal cases, and contemporary activist fanfiction. They illustrate the effects of fiction at different scales, from the paradoxes of individual emotional response to large-scale collective action.

Alison James is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, Akihiro Kubo is Professor in the School of Humanities at Kwansei Gakuin University, and Françoise Lavocat is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

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Editore
Legenda
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1839541466
ISBN 13 
9781839541469
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
282
Redattore
James Alison, Kubo Akihiro, Lavocat Françoise
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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ISBN 10:  1839541458 ISBN 13:  9781839541452
Casa editrice: Legenda, 2023
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