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lain of Clarissa, just as Lovelace is not the Villain of Oliver Twist. Meeting outside their stories Fagin and Lovelace might be a very pleasant couple of good guys, and maybe the one could become the Donor of the other. |
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They might. As a matter of fact, they cannot. Without a Clarissa on whom to press his attention, Lovelace is lost. Better, he is unborn. |
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To summarize the remarks of paragraphs 8.7.2 and 8.7.3 one can thus say the following: |
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In a WN individuals are identified through their structurally necessary properties (hereafter S-necessary properties). These are symmetrical relations of strict textual interdependence. They may or may not be identical with those properties recognized as essential; in any case, they cannot deny them. Accidental properties do not belong to the world of the fabula and are taken into account only by the discoursive structures. |
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8.8. Accessibility Among Narrative Worlds |
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8.8.1. Relation of Accessibility Between W0 and WN |
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The comparison of WN to W0 can assume different forms in different periods and according to different decisions on the part of the reader: |
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(i) He can compare every WNs1 to W0 looking for the versimilitude of the different states of affairs taken as synchronic. |
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(ii) He can compare WN to different W0 (I can read the Divine Comedy referring to the encyclopedia of a reader of the Middle Ages or to my own). |
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(iii) According to different literary genres the WN suggests the right reference world: a historical novel asks for a reference to the W0 of historical encyclopedia; a fairy tale wants the comparison with the world of our direct experience just to make us feel the pleasure of the Incredible; a rich typology of genres is possible from this point of view (Pavel, 1975). |
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Suppose, however, that the reader has established his reference world W0. In the case of Drame it should be a portion of the nineteenth-century Parisian milieu. |
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Let us consider a world structure W0 in which Raoul and Marguerite do not exist; rather, M. de Porto-Riche (1849-1930) and the Théâtre d'Application (in the figure p and t) do exist. |
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Let us compare it to a world structure WN where Raoul (r) and Marguerite (m) exist as supernumeraries. |
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Then let us consider a third world structure W0® WN showing the way in which WN can be constructed starting from W0 (relation of accessibility). |
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