"This volume expands on Podoroga's critical exploration of the analytic anthropology of literature in Volume 1. Here he delves into the ways literature can be used in "world-building," both in terms of what happens inside the narrative and how it reflects the external world. He explores the function of the work outside of its time: both as a means to project itself into the future and as a document of a former age. How are we to read the past through these works of the imagination? With an introductory essay from the author ...
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"This volume expands on Podoroga's critical exploration of the analytic anthropology of literature in Volume 1. Here he delves into the ways literature can be used in "world-building," both in terms of what happens inside the narrative and how it reflects the external world. He explores the function of the work outside of its time: both as a means to project itself into the future and as a document of a former age. How are we to read the past through these works of the imagination? With an introductory essay from the author's daughter, Ioulia Podoroga"--
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