Essays on Fiction and Perspective

The Editor: Göran Rossholm is Professor at the Department of Literature, Stockholm University. His dissertation was an analysis of Ibsen’s last play When We Dead Awaken, for which he received a Ph.D. in 1987. Since then he has produced scholarly editions of August Strindberg, and articles on semiotics and theory of literature and is the author of To Be And Not to Be (Peter Lang, 2004).

• Contents: Ann Banfield: The Perspective of the Mirror-Instrument in a Monadology of the Novel – Eva Broman: Narratological Focalization Models - a Critical Survey – Östen Dahl: Perspective and Narrativity in Spoken Language – Lubomir Doležel: Narratives of Counterfactual History – Monika Fludernik: Letters and Chronicles: How Narrative Are They? – Petr Kotatko: Truth Conditions and Literary Aspirations: Basic Correlations – Peter Pagin: Point of View and Belief Attributions – Göran Rossholm: Now’s the Time - the Fiction Reader’s Temporal Perspective – Lars-Åke Skalin: Focalization as Restriction of Field – Göran Sonesson: Perspective from a Semiotical Perspective – Claude Vandeloise: Spatial Perspective and Linguistic Relativity – Lars-Olof Åhlberg: Postmodernism, History and «The Linguistic Turn».