Between World and Narrative: Fictional Epigraphs and Critical World-Building.
Secondary worlds are constructed from a wide range of building blocks. In this article, epigraphs that refer to fictional sources in secondary worlds are analyzed in terms of their world-building characteristics. The analysis starts from the (implied) paratextual and intertextual properties of epigr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 244 - 266 |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2021
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