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Architectures of Possibility by Lance Olsen
Architectures of Possibility by Lance Olsen









Such an approach is ideal for tracking ontological slippages and readers' resultant experiences, particularly in relation to the kind of blurred fictionality found in autofiction. My analysis adopts a cognitive approach to fictionality, that is new in its combined use of Text World Theory and the metalanguage of the narrative interrelation framework. /rebates/2fArchitectures-Possibility-After-Innovative-Writing-Olsen2f303222633592fbd&. Contra to postmodernist sensibilities, the ontological distortions and metaleptic transgressions of Olsen's texts are primarily deployed as a means of reinvigorating our human sense of lived experience and the place of narratives within it. In doing so, I argue that while tropes such as recursive narrative structure and the intrusion of the author into fiction are typically postmodernist, Olsen repurposes them as part of a contemporary pursuit of the real. In this article, I explore the experiential texture of literary f ictionality and ontological blurrings, using Lance Olsen's multimodal works Theories of Forgetting and there's no place like time as case study texts.











Architectures of Possibility by Lance Olsen