User:Nico Zorn

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Currently researching for the Magisterarbeit:

Jasper Fforde's 'Thursday Next (2001-2007). Intertextuality, Metafiction, Postmodernism

Questions I ponder

1) I just wondered... Linda Hutcheon says (in very short) that there is a big difference in the reader's imaginative process when reading a FICTION (having no real referents) as opposed to a text that is not revealed as fiction. (Narcissistic Narrative, p. 97) Has there been any brainscans perhaps, looking for different brain activity? I am not thinking so much of the difference between a scientific text and a fantasy fiction text... more of a biography and a "novel". [It is clear that Hutcheon does not aim for this, at least not directly... but it would be interesting.]

What could brain scans prove - the difference is, I guess, rather one in the options you have, once you speak about these texts. If you suppose the text is true (Robinson actually spent these 28 years on his island - can you criticise his book for its plot line? The poor sailor gave his story and that's it. Things are different if we assume the real author is a certain Daniel Defoe, a political write, vulnerable in that position. You might immediately ask him why he wrote a story to this ending rather than any other. Whatever his hero did - Defoe would have had the chance to make him do something else. You read the fictitious text with the awareness that the author had it in his hands to entertain you to any end. That is, I feel, indeed a tremendous difference... --Olaf Simons 16:03, 27 October 2007 (CEST)