Of course, Ireland has many fictional existences: the emerald turf of romantic myth, the gloriously surreal comedy of Flann O' Brien, the stripped-down enigma of Beckett.
(In a 1976 paper titled "Living with Television," researchers George Gerbner and Larry Gross coined the term with a chilling line: "Representation in the fictional world signifies social existence; absence means symbolic annihilation"). .
In the hands of writers like John Updike, Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, this sort of bourgeois existence has provided the makings of a compelling fictional world.
He is a writer much concerned with the minutiae of existence; minor events in human lives assume, in McGregor's fictional world, collossal scale.
Rift is a game set in the fictional world of Telara, in which creatures of all shapes and sizes and from all planes of existence mash together.
More important, Mr. Chabon has so thoroughly conjured the fictional world of Sitka — its history, culture, geography, its incestuous and byzantine political and sectarian divisions — that the reader comes to take its existence for granted.
Plans included for the film to contain references to the existence of other superheroes, alluding to the possibility of a further DC Universe, and setting the tone for a shared fictional universe of DC Comics characters on film.
The true sign of a TV show worming its way into your brain is when you devote a lot of thought to a fictional person's existence, and this summer, I spent about 30percentt of my time thinking about Diane Nguyen (Alison Brie), a core "BoJack" character and a role that has allowed Brie to do her finest work to date.
For example, when the noun unicorn is used de re in a piece of fiction (mediated reference), the unicorn exists in the story, but the kind of existence is fictional in that no agent-external counterpart is entailed.
While others argue that the existence of fictional units in Scotland helped confirm German fears of a diversionary attack in the region.
