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[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
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Chapter 6
“Why do you insist that Alana is not real?”

Visitors’ perceptions of the fictionality of Andi and Lance Olsen’s ‘there’s no place like time’ exhibition

 | Sheffield Hallam University
Published online: 8 February 2021
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: There’s no artist like Alana Olsen
  • 2.Fictionality and empirical Research: There’s no reality like fiction
    • 2.1The development of fiction/reality distinctions
    • 2.2Factors effecting fiction/reality judgment and processing
    • 2.3Summary of fictionality and empirical research
  • 3.Modelling cognition in museums: There’s no methodology like cognitive stylistics
  • 4.Exhibition style: There’s no place like time
  • 5.Questionnaire response: There’s no data like qualitative answers
    • 5.1Is Alana Olsen real enough to meet?
    • 5.2Retrospective disbelief
    • 5.3Belief in the auto/biographical retrospective and emotional response
    • 5.4Personal relevance and reality creating fiction
  • 6.Conclusion: There’s no felt experience like referentiality
  • Data
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • Bibliography
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