Fictionality Workshop 3

Programme

10.00 Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg

"Naturalizing the Unnatural: A View from Blending Theory"
[uses blending theory, with a historical thrust, to consider how natural storytelling situations can give rise to unnatural ones]

11.00   coffee

11.30 Richard Walsh, University of York

"The Force of Fictions"
[connects the built-in self-consciousness of fictionality to the basic cognitive functions of narrative sense-making, with reference to Beckett’s Watt.]

12.30   lunch (for those attending the afternoon discussion)

  2.00   roundtable discussion (in room K/G33)

  4.00   close