Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Changing Configurations in Theories of Fictive Representation -- Why Does Fictive Representation Exist? -- The Wellsprings of Fictive Creativity -- The Materials of Fictive Invention -- The Informing Role of Fantasy -- The Shaping of Fictive Scenarios by the Author: Motivations, Strategies, and Outcomes -- The Exploitation of Generic Templates and Intertexts as Vehicles for Affect Regulation -- Theories of Reception in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- A Neuropsychoanalytic Theory of Reception -- Intersubjective Attunement, Filiation, and the Re-creative Process: Jules and Jim- from Henri-Pierre Roche to Francois Truffaut -- The Conversion of Autobiographical Emotion into Symbolic Figuration: William Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Tracking a Personal Myth through an Oeuvre: The Films of Francois Ozon -- Conclusion.
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