ВИРТУЕЛНИ СВЕТОВИ ПОРЕЂЕЊА И САВРЕМЕНЕ КЊИЖЕВНЕ ТЕОРИЈЕ
VIRTUAL WORLDS OF COMPARISON AND CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORIES

Summary/Abstract: According to criterion of actualization, the virtual narrative containing non-actualized worlds consists of the following types: disnarrated, including and interpreting counterfactuals and hypotheticalfocalization as its subtypes, narrative negations, simulated narratives and comparisons. This paper deals with virtual worlds of comperison through different methodological contexts: cognitive psychology, quantum physics, cognitive and conceptual semantics, cognitive poetics, possible worlds theory and text world theory. Starting from the notion that comparison is the relationship of symmetry but the process of asymmetry, we consider the relationship between their actual and virtual world.Accor- ding to intensity of concretization, to origin of doubles and motivation for their introduction, to level change of virtual versions and to relation of the actual world character towards its doubles (surrogates), comparisons may have different funktions. In comparisons characters may vary from radically oposite to similar, from concrete beings to apstracte objects. The alternatives of the character may be pointed out with a high or low level of saturation, or, they may be, in the psychological or physical sense, even „richer” from their actual prototypes. Not only as a rhetorical device, comperisons may serve for different purposes. They may influence on semantic saturation of story-world and for the destabilization of mimetic component of textual actual world, or it may indicate an unreliable narration. One of the main function of comparisons is connected with characterisation and with proces of creating simultaneous worlds in the reader’s mind.

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