Table of Contents:
  • An Aristotelian legacy
  • Language and perception
  • The splitting of the referent and the mnemonic projection
  • Memory: faithful or unfaithful?
  • Fictional worlds and the matter of belief
  • Events in time and the rise of narrative
  • The prestige of rumors
  • Mallarmé and the mystery of legends
  • Flaubert's Herodias and the mimetic impulse
  • Eminescu and the romantic transfiguration.