Marie-Laure Ryan's articles on Possible Worlds and the theory of fiction. (See also Narratology)

2006. From Parallel Universes to Possible Worlds : Ontological Pluralism in Physics, Narratology and Narrative Poetics Today 24.7, 633-674.

2005. "Possible-worlds Theory." Entry for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative.


2002. "Fiction and its Other: How Trespassers Help Defend the Border." Semiotica. 138-1/4: 351-69.

1998. "The Text as World Versus the Text as Game: Possible Worlds Semantics and Narrative Theory." Journal of Literary Semantics. 27.3. 137-163.

1997. "Postmodernism and the Doctrine of Panfictionality." Narrative 5.2, 165-187.

1995. "Introduction: From Possible Worlds to Virtual Reality." Style 29.2, 173-183.

1992. "Possible Worlds in Recent Literary Theory." Style 26.4, 528--53.

1991. "Possible Worlds and Accessibility Relations: A Semantic Typology of Fiction." Poetics Today 12.3, 553-576.

1985. "The Modal Structure of Narrative Universes." Poetics Today 6.4:717-756.

1984."Fiction as a Logical, Ontological, and Illocutionary Issue." Style 18.2:121-139.

1980. "Fiction, Non-Factuals, and the Principle of Minimal Departure." Poetics 9:403-422.

1987. "The Heuristics of Automated Story Generation." Poetics 16: 515-534.


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