• Contents 
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One 
• Representations
• 1. 
• Representation and Make-Believe
• 1. 
• Imagining
• 2. 
• Prompters
• 3. 
• Objects of Imaginings
• 4. 
• Imagining about Oneself
• 5. 
• Props and Fictional Truths
• 6. 
• Fictionality without Props: Dreams and Daydreams
• 7. 
• Representations
• 8. 
• Nonfigurative Art
• 9. 
• Fictional Worlds
• 10. 
• The Magic of Make-Believe
• 2. 
• Fiction and Nonfiction
• 1. 
• Nonfiction
• 2. 
• Fiction versus Reality
• 3. 
• Linguistic Strategies
• 4. 
• Fiction and Assertion
• 5. 
• Pretended and Represented Illocutionary Actions
• 6. 
• Fiction Making as an Illocutionary Action?
• 7. 
• Mixtures, Intermediates, Ambiguity, Indeterminacy
• 8. 
• Legends and Myths
• 9. 
• A Note on Truth and Reality
• 10. 
• Two Kinds of Symbols?
• 3. 
• Objects of Representation
• 1. 
• What Objects Are
• 2. 
• Representation and Matching
• 3. 
• Determinants
• 4. 
• Representing and Referring
• 5. 
• Uses of Objects
• 6. 
• Reflexive Representation
• 7. 
• The Inessentiality of Objects
• 8. 
• Nonactual Objects?
• 4. 
• The Mechanics of Generation
• 1. 
• Principles of Generation
• 2. 
• Direct and Indirect Generation
• 3. 
• Principles of Implication
• 4. 
• The Mechanics of Direct Generation
• 5. 
• Silly Questions
• 6. 
• Consequences
• Part Two 
• Appreciating Representations
• 5. 
• Puzzles and Problems
• 1. 
• Rescuing Heroines
• 2. 
• Fearing Fictions
• 3. 
• Fictionality and Other Intentional Properties
• 6. 
• Participation
• 1. 
• Participation in Children's Games
• 2. 
• Appreciators as Participants
• 3. 
• Verbal Participation
• 4. 
• Restrictions on Participation
• 5. 
• Asides to the Audience
• 6. 
• Seeing the Unseen
• 7. 
• Psychological Participation
• 1. 
• Fearing Fictionally
• 2. 
• Participating Psychologically
• 3. 
• Paradoxes of Tragedy
• 4. 
• Suspense and Surprise
• 5. 
• The Point of Participation
• 6. 
• Appreciation without Participation
• Part Three 
• Modes and Manners
• 8. 
• Depictive Representation
• 1. 
• Depiction Defined
• 2. 
• Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things
• 3. 
• Styles of Depiction
• 4. 
• Realism
• 5. 
• Cross-Modal Depiction
• 6. 
• Musical Depictions
• 7. 
• Points of View (in Depictions)
• 8. 
• Conclusion
• 9. 
• Verbal Representations
• 1. 
• Verbal Depiction
• 2. 
• Narration
• 3. 
• Two Kinds of Reliability
• 4. 
• Nonverbal Narration
• 5. 
• Absent and Effaced Narrators
• 6. 
• Storytelling Narrators
• 7. 
• Mediation
• 8. 
• Points of View in Narrated Representations
• Part Four 
• Semantics and Ontology
• 10. 
• Doing without Fictitious Entities
• 1. 
• The Problem
• 2. 
• Speaking within and about Fictional Worlds
• 3. 
• Ordinary Statements
• 4. 
• Unofficial Games
• 5. 
• Variations
• 6. 
• Logical Form
• 11. 
• Existence
• 1. 
• Betrayal and Disavowal
• 2. 
• Claims of Existence and Nonexistence
• Works Cited
• Index

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