Moreover, as this prose is adhering the concept of ortsgebunden (Hausherr 1970)-i. ![]() The utterance of allotopian encyclopaedias in the coherent “heterocosm of reference’ (Hutcheon 1987) will be exemplified in Frank Herbert’s Dune, Neal Stephenson’s Anathem and Jacek Dukaj’s Inne Pieśni (‘Other Poems’)-novels peculiarly difficult to classify using typical nomenclature (they represent neither fantasy, nor SF, nor even a postmodern or magical realist novel). Fonstad’s The Atlas of Middle-Earth for the preconceived world of J. Gavriel Rosenveld’s term of allohistory) of a given storyworld, like for instance the Wookiepaedia for Star Wars franchise or K. ![]() Thus, allotopia will have become a perfect term for a multitude of topographico-literary tendencies, just to mention world-building think-tanks in nearly every video game studio or fictional encyclopaedias, thoroughly describing geography, topography, cartography and chronography (cf. Consequently, I shall claim that the philosophical premises of allotopia and world-building alike are comprising the significant shift between 20th and 21st century prose which manifests in the tendency to create a storyworld prior to the storyline-a ‘matrix for all possible narratives’ (Dukaj 2010). ![]() Following Bernhard Waldenfels’ (1997, 2006) notes on the nature of otherworldliness and its liaisons with what I call ‘xenotopography’, I shall examine whether the typically fantastic trichotomic model of world (empirical world → symbolical gate → counterempirical world) is not nowadays being replaced with pre-established, immersive and imaginative storyworld (purum figmentum). "In herein paper I shall argue, whether Umberto Eco’s definition of allotopia (Il mondi della fantascienza, 1984) as another, alternate but still “more real than the real one” world should not be revised in the light of cognitive narratology (VR, immersion and storyworlds in Marie-Laure Ryan 1991, Hermann 2002), constructivism (‘reduction of complexity’ in Luhmann 1984), psychonarratology (immersion in Nell 1988, Gerrig 1993) and topography of literature.
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