Author:
Publisher: Eternal Press
ISBN: 1897559038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Verisimilitude
Author:
Publisher: Eternal Press
ISBN: 1897559038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher: Eternal Press
ISBN: 1897559038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Verisimilitude
Author: Deren Hansen
Publisher: Dunlith Hill
ISBN: 1938994043
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
In terms of objective reality, a work of fiction is an elaborate lie. No writer thinks of themselves as a liar simply because they write fiction, but that’s the fact of the matter. And no other writing guide will admit to teaching you to be a better writer by showing you how to be a better liar—at least in a narrative sense. A good lie rings true. Verisimilitude, or the appearance of truth, is critical in a novel because readers open the book knowing it is fiction. Their willingness to suspend disbelief is like a house of cards—if you make one wrong narrative move the illusion of truth falls apart. This volume looks at the ways in which you can break the illusion in your writing and how to avoid them; it explores what you can do to increase the degree of verisimilitude in your stories; and shows why less really is more. You will learn how to satisfy readers with strategic detail, reassure them you know what you’re talking about, and convince them they can trust you as a storyteller.
Publisher: Dunlith Hill
ISBN: 1938994043
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
In terms of objective reality, a work of fiction is an elaborate lie. No writer thinks of themselves as a liar simply because they write fiction, but that’s the fact of the matter. And no other writing guide will admit to teaching you to be a better writer by showing you how to be a better liar—at least in a narrative sense. A good lie rings true. Verisimilitude, or the appearance of truth, is critical in a novel because readers open the book knowing it is fiction. Their willingness to suspend disbelief is like a house of cards—if you make one wrong narrative move the illusion of truth falls apart. This volume looks at the ways in which you can break the illusion in your writing and how to avoid them; it explores what you can do to increase the degree of verisimilitude in your stories; and shows why less really is more. You will learn how to satisfy readers with strategic detail, reassure them you know what you’re talking about, and convince them they can trust you as a storyteller.
Refined Verisimilitude
Author: S.D. Zwart
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401728704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The subject of the present inquiry is the approach-to-the-truth research, which started with the publication of Sir Karl Popper's Conjectures and Refutations. In the decade before this publication, Popper fiercely attacked the ideas of Rudolf Carnap about confirmation and induction; and ten years later, in the famous tenth chapter of Conjectures he introduced his own ideas about scientific progress and verisimilitude (cf. the quotation on page 6). Abhorring inductivism for its apprecia tion of logical weakness rather than strength, Popper tried to show that fallibilism could serve the purpose of approach to the truth. To substantiate this idea he formalized the common sense intuition about preferences, that is: B is to be preferred to A if B has more advantages andfewer drawbacks than A. In 1974, however, David Millerand Pavel Tichy proved that Popper's formal explication could not be used to compare false theories. Subsequently, many researchers proposed alternatives or tried to improve Popper's original definition.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401728704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The subject of the present inquiry is the approach-to-the-truth research, which started with the publication of Sir Karl Popper's Conjectures and Refutations. In the decade before this publication, Popper fiercely attacked the ideas of Rudolf Carnap about confirmation and induction; and ten years later, in the famous tenth chapter of Conjectures he introduced his own ideas about scientific progress and verisimilitude (cf. the quotation on page 6). Abhorring inductivism for its apprecia tion of logical weakness rather than strength, Popper tried to show that fallibilism could serve the purpose of approach to the truth. To substantiate this idea he formalized the common sense intuition about preferences, that is: B is to be preferred to A if B has more advantages andfewer drawbacks than A. In 1974, however, David Millerand Pavel Tichy proved that Popper's formal explication could not be used to compare false theories. Subsequently, many researchers proposed alternatives or tried to improve Popper's original definition.
History, Fiction, Verisimilitude
Author: Mark Chinca
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780947623494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This study of Gottfried von Strassburg discusses the narrative technique of his romance Tristan (c. 1210) against the double background of Latin rhetoric and poetics on the one hand, and the developing written vernacular tradition on the other. It argues that Gottfried's poetics represents the attempt to mediate between opposing tendencies in vernacular narrative, the one historiographic and archival, the other fictional and experimental. Verisimilitude, the res ficta quae tamen fieri potest, occupies an intermediate position between the res factae of history and the res fictae of poetry; it is on this middle ground that Gottfried situates his narrative.
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780947623494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This study of Gottfried von Strassburg discusses the narrative technique of his romance Tristan (c. 1210) against the double background of Latin rhetoric and poetics on the one hand, and the developing written vernacular tradition on the other. It argues that Gottfried's poetics represents the attempt to mediate between opposing tendencies in vernacular narrative, the one historiographic and archival, the other fictional and experimental. Verisimilitude, the res ficta quae tamen fieri potest, occupies an intermediate position between the res factae of history and the res fictae of poetry; it is on this middle ground that Gottfried situates his narrative.
A Festive Verisimilitude
Author: Paul R Stanton
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9360162345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
It is Christmas, and the Devil is abroad - once again! And once more he has returned to one of his old haunts- London. Christmas is positively his most favorite time of the year: tinsel, mistletoe, presents, warmth, and seasonal conviviality. And, of course, not forgetting good old-fash- ioned judgment, all of which comes wrapped up with a big red festive bow. There are those in the time-honored city who will be getting a little more in their stocking than they had bargained for this year.
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9360162345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
It is Christmas, and the Devil is abroad - once again! And once more he has returned to one of his old haunts- London. Christmas is positively his most favorite time of the year: tinsel, mistletoe, presents, warmth, and seasonal conviviality. And, of course, not forgetting good old-fash- ioned judgment, all of which comes wrapped up with a big red festive bow. There are those in the time-honored city who will be getting a little more in their stocking than they had bargained for this year.
Postmodern Representations
Author: Richard Harvey Brown
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064654
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064654
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1
Author: Imre Lakatos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521280310
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This collection exhibits and confirms the originality, range and the essential unity of his work.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521280310
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This collection exhibits and confirms the originality, range and the essential unity of his work.
Seeking Verisimilitude
Author: Michael Edward Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Subversions of Verisimilitude
Author: Lawrence R. Schehr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Subversions of Verisimilitude focuses on the ways in which a number of French literary narratives written in the realist tradition show a dynamic balance between the desire of the author/narrator to present a verisimilar world and the need for aesthetic balance. While the works studied-narratives by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Proust, and Sartre-range over the course of a century, from 1835 to 1938, they share a perspective on the relations between and the need to engage questions of realist verisimilitude and narrative interest and aesthetics. The book discusses some of the subversive paths taken in realism and, specifically, in canonical narratives solidly anchored in the tradition. The goal here is to analyze these realist texts, regardless of the narrative mode chosen, in order to see the deviations and detours from realism, mostly for aesthetic ends.The book contributes to our understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative and furthers our knowledge of the ways in which critical theory illuminates such canonical works.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Subversions of Verisimilitude focuses on the ways in which a number of French literary narratives written in the realist tradition show a dynamic balance between the desire of the author/narrator to present a verisimilar world and the need for aesthetic balance. While the works studied-narratives by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Proust, and Sartre-range over the course of a century, from 1835 to 1938, they share a perspective on the relations between and the need to engage questions of realist verisimilitude and narrative interest and aesthetics. The book discusses some of the subversive paths taken in realism and, specifically, in canonical narratives solidly anchored in the tradition. The goal here is to analyze these realist texts, regardless of the narrative mode chosen, in order to see the deviations and detours from realism, mostly for aesthetic ends.The book contributes to our understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative and furthers our knowledge of the ways in which critical theory illuminates such canonical works.
Verisimilitude in Realist Narrative
Author: Dewei Wang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description