Cover -- Contents -- I. Possible worlds -- 1. The notion of possible worlds -- 2. The qualities of possible worlds -- 3. Identification in possible worlds -- 3.1 Trans-world-identity (TWI) -- 3.1.1 Kripke's notion of transworld identity -- 3.1.2 Rescher's possible worlds and TWI -- 3.2 Counterpart theory -- 4. Possible worlds and the actual world -- 5. Possible worlds and truth values -- 5.1 Necessity and possibility -- 5.2 The accessibility-relation between possible worlds -- 6. Possible worlds and linguistics -- 6.1 Cresswell's possible worlds and natural language -- 7. Extension and intension -- 7.1 Basic logical terms -- 7.2 Gottlob Frege -- 7.3 Rudolf Carnap -- 7.4 Richard Montague -- 7.5 Saul Kripke -- II. Fictional worlds as possible worlds -- 1. Preliminary motivations -- 2. Possible worlds of logic and fiction -- 2.1 Impossible worlds -- 3. Fictional worlds and the actual world -- 3.1 The accessibility relation -- 3.2 Fictional and historical counterparts -- 3.3 Finitude and completeness -- 4. The structure of fictional worlds -- 4.1 Extensional and intensional structures of fictional worlds -- 4.2 Narrative modalities -- 4.3 Intensional functions -- 4.4 Authentication function -- 4.4.1 The principle of minimal departure -- 4.5 Saturation function -- 4.5.1 Fictional encyclopedia -- 4.6 Fictional and historical worlds -- III. Literary transduction -- 1. General specification -- 2. Intertextuality -- 3. Transduction -- 3.1 Lubomír Doležel's view of intertextuality -- 3.2 Transduction and fictional worlds -- 3.3 Transduction as an alternative to intertextuality -- IV. The Prague School and fictional worlds -- 1. Linguistics and aesthetics -- 2. Literary theory -- 3. Fictional worlds -- Literature.