CONTENTS
World-building as a Human Activity
Toward a Theory of Imaginary Worlds
The Philosophy of Possible Worlds
Imagination, Creation, and Subcreation
Story vs. World: Storytelling and World-building
Invention, Completeness, and Consistency
Immersion, Absorption, and Saturation
World Gestalten: Ellipsis, Logic, and Extrapolation
Connecting the Secondary World to the Primary World
2 A History of Imaginary Worlds
Transnarrative Characters and Literary Cycles
The Mythical and Unknown World
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