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Plausability

By On January 25, 2012

Sometimes I think that the problem with reading is a problem with its plausibility.

Here is a passage from Northrop Frye’s theory of modes: (P 51)

“We note in passing that imitation of nature in fiction produces, not truth or reality, but plausibility, and plausibility varies in weight from a mere perfunctory concession in a myth or folk tale to a kind of censor principle in a naturalistic novel.”

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