Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: England Win
- First Steps Toward an Explication of Counterfactual Imagination
- Thought Experiments and Literature
- Counterfactual Explanation in Literature and the Social Sciences
- Counterfactual Thinking in Physics
- Counterfactuals in the Social Context: The Case of Political Interviews and Their Effects
- A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective on Counterfactuality
- Significance and Abstraction: Scientific Uses of Counterfactual Thought Experiments in the Early 20th Century
- What-If ? Counterfactuality and History
- Counterfactuals, Contingency, and Causation
- Plot vs. Story: Towards a Typology of Counterfactual Historical Novels
- “If I Were a Man”: Functions of the Counterfactual in Feminist Fiction
- Temporal Tourism: Time Travel and Counterfactuality in Literature and Film
- “What Might Have Been Is Not What Is”: Dickens’s Narrative Refusals
- How To Do Things With Worlds: From Counterfactuality to Counterfictionality
- List of Contributors
First Steps Toward an Explication of Counterfactual Imagination
Albrecht, Andrea / Danneberg, Lutz
Citation Information
Counterfactual Thinking - Counterfactual Writing
Edited by Birke, Dorothee / Butter, Michael / Köppe, Tilmann
DE GRUYTER
2011
Pages: 12-29
eBook ISBN: 9783110268669
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