fictive

How To Use fictive In A Sentence

• The verbal responses to the film are constructed using data from the ‘real life’ of viewers rather than the fictive world defined by the film and filmmaker.
• His tribe has both Turkmen and Arab branches (which demonstrates once again that a ‘tribe’ is often based on fictive kinship and is a little like a political party, which can be joined or left over time).
• Yet again, we have too sweeping a conclusion: that this is a legitimating 'construction of fictive continuities'. The Times Literary Supplement
• These areas are then overlaid with a curious but beautiful, whitish veil-like layer, as if to remind us that her scenes are fictive.
• It is austerely modernist, making little concession to either plot or character, more like a fictive sculpture than a story, an obsessively repeated series of patterns.
• Postmodern novels defamiliarize this ideology by highlighting their own status as textual constructs, thereby disallowing readers to interpret their fictive worlds as transparent or neutral reflections of reality.
• Science Fiction, by it's very name, implies a fictive universe within an understandable scientific framework.
• In their fictive and non-fictive writings, they provided numerous, often very vivid, accounts of sexual abuse.
• Donoso plays up Humberto's ‘authorship’ of Boy's reality to a great extent; Boy becomes fictive and Humberto becomes his father.
• Milieu Recognition: With different specifics of comparable locales elided, a fictive milieu may be recognised as essentially matching the experiential milieu of the reader -- e.g. where the fictive milieu of a novel set in Liverpool resembles the experiential milieu of a reader living in Glasgow. Archive 2009-12-01