On Referring In Literature

What is the relationship between the real world and fictionalconstructs? How is referential illusion created? The purpose of this volume is toshow the close links between reference and interpretation. It examines types ofliterary reference, showing what it is and how it works.

Metafictional implications for novelistic reference / Linda Hutcheon -- The double bind / Anna Whiteside -- Bad references / Gerald Prince -- Waiting for the referent / Jean Alter -- Topological poetics / Jean-Jacques Thomas -- Renaming in literature / Franðcoise Meltzer -- How playscripts refer / Michael Issacharoff -- Are Baudelaire's "Tableaux parisiens" about Paris? / Ross Chambers -- Referential intertextuality / Bruce Morissette -- Production, reception, and the social context / Patrice Pavis -- Poland of nowhere, the breasts of Tiresias, and other incongruities, or, referential manipulation in modern drama / Wladimir Krysinski -- The referential act / Thomas Lewis.