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Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it claims, is based on individual and shared human imagination, which creates literary worlds that blend the real and the fantastic, mimesis and genre, often modulated by different kinds of unreliability. The main building blocks of literary worlds are their oral, visual and written modes and three themes: challenge, perception and relation. They are blended and inflected in different ways by combinations of narratives and figures, indirection, thwarted aspirations, meta-usages, hypothetical action as well as hierarchies and blends of genres and text types. Moreover, literary worlds are not only constructed by humans but also shape their lives and reinforce their sense of wonder. Finally, ten reasons are given in order to show how this comparative view can be of use in literary studies. In sum, How Literary Worlds Are Shaped is the first study to present a wide-ranging and detailed comparative account of the makings of literary worlds.

Comparative literature --- Literary rhetorics --- Literatur --- Imagination --- Poetics. --- Imagination (Philosophy) --- Themes, motives. --- Imagination. --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Educational psychology --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Literary worlds. --- comparative poetics. --- literary imagination.

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This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel 'Butterfly Burning', which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explore what historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary imagination. Responding as it does to a novel, this history imitates some fictional modes. Two of its chapters are in effect 'scenes', dealing with brief periods of intense activity. Others are in effect biographies of 'characters'. The book draws upon and quotes from a rich body of urban oral memory. In addition to this historical/literary interaction the book is a contribution to the historiography of southern African cities, bringing out the experiential and cultural dimensions, and combining black and white urban social history. TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford. Zimbabwe: Weaver Press.

Vera, Yvonne, --- Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) --- History --- Race relations. --- Social conditions --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:96G --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Geschiedenis van Afrika --- Vera, Yvonne. --- Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African. --- African cities. --- Bulawayo Burning. --- Butterfly Burning. --- Rhodes Professor of Race Relations. --- Social History. --- TERENCE RANGER. --- University of Oxford. --- Yvonne Vera. --- Zimbabwean cultural life. --- black and white urban social history. --- cultural dimensions. --- experiential. --- historical research. --- historiography. --- literary imagination. --- southern African cities. --- urban oral memory.