Fictionality as Rhetoric: a Study on Arantxa Urretabizkaia’s Lecciones del camino

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https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2023.01.010

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Fictionality, Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Rhetoric, Narratology, Philosophy of Literature, Bidean ikasia

Abstract


The article analyses the work Lecciones del camino by Arantxa Urretabizkaia from the perspective of the rtheoric of fictionality. It is a book that has generated a debate on his fictionality because it’s fictional status it is not clear. Firstly, the article explains the debate on fictionality and the different perspective in it, framed in two fundamental trends: the syntactic-semantic perspective and the pragmatic perspective, that is included the rhetoric of fictionality. Then, the article studies the different aspects that must be taken into account in order to stablish Lecciones del camino’s fictionality, divided in transtextual (paratext and metatext) elements and intratextual ones (mind representation, metalepsis and narrators multiplicity). It concludes that, although the text has been catalogued mainly as non-fictional, Lecciones del camino is highly fictional.

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2023-09-12

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Sarasola, B. (2023). Fictionality as Rhetoric: a Study on Arantxa Urretabizkaia’s Lecciones del camino. Revista De Literatura, 85(169), 235–259. https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2023.01.010

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Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Grant numbers US 17/10

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Grant numbers FFI2017-84342-P