The Charge against Classical and Post-Classical Narratologies’ “Epistemic” Approach to Literary Fiction

Real fictions

“…Schaeffer (2012) claims that fiction and factual narratives are "generally defined as a pair of opposites" (2012). This assumption underwrites much recent research, which has continued to call for the clear separation between fictional literature and other narrative domains and methodologies used to study those narratives (see Andersson, 2016, Andersson & Sandberg, 2018. Greger Anderson and Tommy Sandberg (2018, p. 242) claim the existence and dominance of "sameness narratology," which has the intention to read fictional narratives in the same way as non-fictional, everyday narratives.…”