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If I had acted differently, then..." - most human beings indulge in counterfactual thought experiments at one point or another. For the fictional characters analysed in this book, they are a central preoccupation. The characters obsessively review their past, looking at a road they did not take, pondering on a life they did not live. Drawing on narratology, theories of counterfactuality and the study of motifs, the book suggests a typology of unlived lives, which is based on more than fifty work
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lena Linne; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Universitätsverlag Winter
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783825379131
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Psychology, Literary Collections
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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