Narrative as a Possible World

Introducing the literary world as a possible world, while emphasizing its self-sufficiency, the present study aims to provide an alternative to those theories that consider the literary work as a reflection of the state of the affairs in the real world. Accordingly, having discussied the self-sufficiency of a literary work configured through its internal forces, the research explores the subject of contextualism from a macro-cultural, phenomenological, and linguistic point of view. This research methodologically uses a combination of phenomenological and linguistic approaches in the study of literary context to apply the principles of the possible literary world in the light of topics such as symbolic forms, wholeness, semantic heterogeneity, probable impossibility, internal logic of the work and semiotic reading. In this study, it is found that in the semantics of the possible literary world, the theory of coherence of truth is more effective than the theory of conformity of truth, and the literary world, while suspending the referential function of the text, is better understood based on its internal ordering.