Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-208) and index.
Contents
An Aristotelian legacy -- Language and perception -- The splitting of the referent and the mnemonic projection -- Memory: faithful or unfaithful? -- Fictional worlds and the matter of belief -- Events in time and the rise of narrative -- The prestige of rumors -- Mallarme and the mystery of legends -- Flaubert's Herodias and the mimetic impulse -- Eminescu and the romantic transfiguration.
