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Something has been happening to the concept of "fiction",either in critical discourse and elsewhere. For a long time, __1
this concept operated under common understood restrictions. __2
It was used to refer to a certain genre of literature; a certain __3
aspect of literature in general——the element of plot, action,or fable, including such constituents like character, setting, __4
scene, and so on; and to any narrative or story contained __5
a large element of invention. But recently, the concept of "fiction" has undergone an extension. Though still used to __6
refer to the action or plot of literary work, it has come to __7
be appllied to something more: to the ideas, themes, and beliefs that are being embodied in the action or plot. It is __8
not only the events in literature that are regarded as fictive but the "message" or "world view" conveyed in the presentation of the events as well. And this is not the end of the matter.
Gone a step further, critics now sometimes suggest, by a kind __9
of tautology, that literary meanings are fictions although all __10
meanings are fictions, this critical view asserts that "life" and "reality" are themselves fictions.
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