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COGNITIVE RELEVANCE OF TRUTH AND FICTION IN ENGLISH BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE

COGNITIVE RELEVANCE OF TRUTH AND FICTION IN ENGLISH BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE


Author:  Ya.V. Bystrov

Affiliation:  Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Abstract
The present paper deals with the cognitive relevance of the opposition “truth – fiction” and the forms of its manifestation within the framework of the theory of possible worlds in literary biographical narrative.

Keywords:  truth, fiction, imagination, ambivalence, theory of possible worlds, biographical narrative

Pages:  600-603

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