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The world is full of fictions, legal, mythological, and literary, to name a few. Fictions claim to represent the world and are, as their authors are, of the world, although sometimes they claim to be of other worlds. Authors and readers negotiate their way through fiction and world, and literary and historical worlds reveal something about literature and history. Fictional and historical worlds read each other and are tentative ways of seeing what may or may not be actuality or reality.
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Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 87.
The Two Cultures, Rede Lecture, Cambridge, 1959. Snow, a scientist and novelist, was in a good position to discuss the problem. C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960). For a discussion of science, criticism, and history,
see Jonathan Hart, “Introduction,” City of the End of Things: Lectures on Civilization and Empire, ed. Jonathan Hart (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2009), 1–34.
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see Ralph M. McInerny, Aquinas and Analogy (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press of America, 1996), 41.
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Keith J. Holyoak and Paul Thagard, Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996, rpt. 1999), ix–x.
See Esa Itkonen, Analogy as Structure and Process: Approaches in Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology and the Philosophy of Science (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005), xi.
See Anthony Pagden, Peoples and Empires (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001).
See Adam Kuper, Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, rpt. 2000),
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On translation, see Susan Bassnett, Translation Studies, 3rd ed. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2002),
and John Sallis, On Translation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).
See Jonathan Hart, Theater and World: The Problematics of Shakespeare’s History (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1992); Shakespeare: Poetry, History, and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, or, The Defence of Poesy, 3rd ed., ed. R. W. Maslen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), 102.
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Hart, J. (2012). Introduction. In: Fictional and Historical Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012647_1
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