Can Fiction Change the World?

Alison James; Akihiro Kubo; Françoise Lavocat

Can Fiction Change the World?

Edited by Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, and Françoise Lavocat

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22 January 2023 • 282pp

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Can fiction change the world? Does it in fact do so? From Don Quixote’s delusions to Emma Bovary’s romantic daydreams, fiction has often portrayed its own effects in negative terms, while contemporary anxieties about video games or virtual worlds revive ancient fears of the confusion between fiction and reality. Beyond these representations and denunciations, there is ample evidence of the influence of fictional universes on real lives, identities, and social practices. Drawn from varied cultures and media, the examples studied here include the political fictions of premodern Japan, uses of fiction in legal cases, and contemporary activist fanfiction. They illustrate the effects of fiction at different scales, from the paradoxes of individual emotional response to large-scale collective action.

Alison James is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, Akihiro Kubo is Professor in the School of Humanities at Kwansei Gakuin University, and Françoise Lavocat is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

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ix-ix	Acknowledgements Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, Françoise Lavocat doi:10.2307/jj.667666.3	Cite
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x-xiv	Notes On the Contributors Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, Françoise Lavocat doi:10.2307/jj.667666.4	Cite
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1-14	Introduction Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, Françoise Lavocat doi:10.2307/jj.667666.5	Cite
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17-30	Poetic Forms of Narrative and Pragmatic Fiction: Poiein — Plattein — Prattein Claude Calame doi:10.2307/jj.667666.6	Cite
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31-44	The Fiction of Factuality: Some Perspectives from Premodern Japan Judit Árokay doi:10.2307/jj.667666.7	Cite
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45-52	For a Theory of Fiction as Show, Performance, Entertainment Yasusuke Oura doi:10.2307/jj.667666.8	Cite
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55-68	The Moral Problem of Fiction: Rethinking the Emotional Effects of Fictional Characters Mario Slugan doi:10.2307/jj.667666.9	Cite
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69-84	Lucianic Fictions and the Rise of Unbelief Nicolas Correard doi:10.2307/jj.667666.10	Cite
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85-96	Fiction and the Modelling of Chance Anne Duprat doi:10.2307/jj.667666.11	Cite
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97-108	Pygmalion’s Virtual Doll: The Case of a Real Metalepsis? Nathalie Kremer doi:10.2307/jj.667666.12	Cite
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111-128	Etiquette to ‘Change the World’?: Fictional Time-Order and Imperial Power at the Court of Emperor Go-Daigo Simone Müller doi:10.2307/jj.667666.13	Cite
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129-140	The Construction of the Nation by Theatrical Fiction Charlotte Krauss doi:10.2307/jj.667666.14	Cite
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141-154	Feminist Resistance and the Powers of Fiction Anne Isabelle François doi:10.2307/jj.667666.15	Cite
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155-164	Engagement and Enchantment: Political and Ethical Uses of Fantasy Fictions Anne Besson doi:10.2307/jj.667666.16	Cite
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165-176	Fiction or Death: The Latin American Tradition of Nonfiction Annick Louis doi:10.2307/jj.667666.17	Cite
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177-190	Fiction as Legal Authority?: Orwell, Snowden, and State Cyber-Surveillance Henriette Korthals Altes doi:10.2307/jj.667666.18	Cite
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191-202	Legal Revolutions as Fictions: Do they Change the World? Otto Pfersmann doi:10.2307/jj.667666.19	Cite
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205-218	Quixotism as a Humorous Reflection on Fiction’s Effects Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat doi:10.2307/jj.667666.20	Cite
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219-230	Metafiction in Japanese and Western Literature: Chô-kyokô and Meta-Mystery Masahiro Iwamatsu doi:10.2307/jj.667666.21	Cite
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231-240	Killing the Reader?: On Some Unfortunate Side Effects of Reading Maxime Decout doi:10.2307/jj.667666.22	Cite
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241-248	When Fiction Changes the World... of Fiction Frank Wagner doi:10.2307/jj.667666.23	Cite
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249-256	Abstracts Frank Wagner doi:10.2307/jj.667666.24	Cite
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257-258	Further Reading Frank Wagner doi:10.2307/jj.667666.25	Cite
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259-268	Index Frank Wagner doi:10.2307/jj.667666.26	Cite
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