{"product_id":"poiesis-and-possible-worlds-thomas-l-martin-9780802036414","title":"Poiesis and Possible Worlds: A Study in Modality and Literary Theory","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\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas L. Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802036414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802036414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.36w x 0.82d","brand":"Thomas L. Martin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096732049663,"sku":"9780802036414","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poiesis-and-possible-worlds-thomas-l-martin-9780802036414","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}