I like the idea of "text worlds." Was it Merleau-Ponty
who called the text the skin of the world?
Candice
-- Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> <snip>
> What you say about the competing makes me think of
> "possible worlds" in philosophy. They aren't exactly
> parallel either, let alone friendly to one another.
> [Candice W]
> <snip>
>
> As it happens, Kripke has been applied to literary
> theory by Paul Werth. Cf
> *Text Worlds: Representing Conceptual Space in
> Discourse*.
>
> CW
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>
> 'What's the point of having a language that
> everybody knows?'
> (Gypsy inhabitant of Barbaraville
>
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