Semántica ficcional y concepciones del tiempomundos y paradigmas temporales en la narrativa de Ursula K. Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut y Juan Gómez Bárcena

Abstract

The present doctoral thesis has three aims that configure a triple objective: 1)Highlight the worth whileness of Lubomír Doležel’s fictional semantics as a theoretical frame and its fruitfulness as a method of literary analysis. 2) Verify time’s use innarrative and the essential role that time conceptions can play in the configuration of fictional worlds. 3) Point out the way in which three contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut and Juan Gómez Bárcena, have achieved to express the current world concerns in their narrative works using temporal paradigms.The thesis begins with the exposition of the fictional semantics theory as presented in Doležel’s essay Heterocosmica, whose frame is completed with approaches of other authors like Eco, Iser, Pavel, Ryan, Harshaw, Genette, Bajtín, Pozuelo Yvancos, Garrido Domínguez, Ávila and Popeanga. Afterwards, a typification of fictional worlds by their textual density and a classification of narrative worlds genres with the addition of two new category (alienated and liminal) are worked out from the fictional semantics paradigms, taking also into consideration theories of Moreno Serrano, Todorov, Roas, Campra and Alazraki about the configuration and definition of fantastic, marvelous and science fiction worlds...