An Aristotelian legacy -- Language and perception -- The splitting of the referent and the mnemonic projection -- Memory: faithful or unfaithful? -- Fictional worlds and the matter of belief -- Events in time and the rise of narrative -- The prestige of rumors -- Mallarmé and the mystery of legends -- Flaubert's Herodias and the mimetic impulse -- Eminescu and the romantic transfiguration.
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