
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.
