Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods is a book by Umberto Eco. Originally delivered at Harvard for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1992 and 1993, the six lectures were published in the fall of 1994.
The book derives its title from Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium but Eco also cites Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler as inspiration because the novel "is concerned with the presence of the reader in the story" which was also the subject of the lectures and book.
Eco's general concerns, besides that of literary criticism, fall under the subjects of techniques of fiction and narration or rhetoric.
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Table of contents
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Entering the Woods
- Introducing Sylvie (Nerval) and its use of the imperfectum
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The Woods of Loisy
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Lingering in the Woods
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Possible Woods
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The Strange Case of Rue Servandoni
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Fictional Protocols
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See also
- Delectatio morosa
- D'agosto moglie mia non ti conosco by Achille Campanile
- If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
- Gustave Flaubert (For a long time I went to bed early)
- Edgar Allan Poe (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Raven)
- Marcel Proust (A propos du 'style' de Flaubert)
- Mickey Spillane
- Rex Stout
- Fictional universe
- Literary theory
- Metaliterature
- The truth of fiction
- Fabula and syuzhet
- The Betrothed (Manzoni novel) (cinematic effects in literature)
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