{"product_id":"poiesis-and-possible-worlds","title":"Poiesis and Possible Worlds","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePoiesis and Possible Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas L. Martin makes a highly focused intervention in the debate about poststructuralist and postmodern theorizing and offers a philosophical approach to some of the controversial tenets of recent theorists. The result is an important addition to the existing literature on the usefulness of possible worlds theory for literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartin argues that literary studies remain mired in the anomalies of a linguistic methodology derived from early twentieth-century language philosophy, a view challenged not only by theoretical physics, but also by compelling advances in philosophic semantics. The possible-worlds theory of this book moves beyond the understanding of language as an inescapable medium and toward a view of language as calculus, a theoretical outlook that provides richer means to model a wide range of literary worlds. These possible-worlds insights apply to several fundamental issues in literary and critical theory: not to a theory of fiction as other possible-worlds theorists have suggested, but at a lower level to the definition of literature, to verbal figuration in the theory of metaphor, and to models of reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWell written and argued, \u003ci\u003ePoiesis and Possible World\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to literary critics, aestheticians, and philosophers of language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54228910735704,"sku":"9780802036414","price":65.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780802036414__67ac9f42165c6.jpg?v=1741135512","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/poiesis-and-possible-worlds","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}