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Fictional Worlds - Pavel, Thomas G
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Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties, and their reason for being.

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Fictional Worlds 1989, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674299665

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Fictional Worlds 1986, Harvard University Press

ISBN-13: 9780674299658

Hardcover