Conclusion

Abstract

This conclusion wraps up the discussion of Radical Fictionalism with a brief summary of the ideas discussed throughout the book. It rehearses the main tenets of Radical Fictionalism and their consequences for fictional discourse, such as the distinction between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narratives, the fictional divide between storyworlds and peripheries, and the Radical Fictionalist takes on prefixed discourse. It continues with a summary of the consequences of Radical Fictionalism for a variety of themes from narrative fiction, such as inconsistency, unreliability, importation, nesting, and the different modes of critical discourse. This conclusion ends with a brief allusion to certain independently open semantic and philosophical issues.