Virtual Geographies by Sabine Heuser

Author:Sabine Heuser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rodopi

14 Alan Singer in the Metaphorics of Fiction summarizes Paul de Man's theory in Allegories of Reading, which reverses "the usual priorities of referential and metaphorical value," since the "familiar elements of plot, character, setting, and theme claim only a kind of second-order significance as clues about the rhetorical devices that operate them [...] within the context of the avant-garde aesthetic, productivity is therefore distinguished from the mimetic content of novels. The mimetic is held in comparative disrepute as a merely received — not created — commodity of culture" (5). Science fiction, while often close to the "descriptive faculty of traditional realist narrative," paradoxically can also reveal the "fictionality of reality" that Singer and de Man see as the objective of self-reflexive strategies in postmodern fiction. The reality it purports to reflect is always what Ange-not calls an "absent paradigm" and it thus creates a double fiction.

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