Kai Mikkonen

TL;DR: Most recent theories of fiction adopt pragmatic-contextual approaches that incorporate "fiction" as a historically variable category as discussed by the authors, in which the semantic composition or stylistic properties of a given text are less essential in determining fictionality than the readers' generic expectations: texts can be given different determinants in time and in regard to different frames of reference.

TL;DR: Literature and artistic representations of metamorphosis have been a hot topic in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with an increasing interest in the subjectivity and subjectivity of the subject.

TL;DR: The authors look for common ground between the agenda of narrative studies in post-classical narratology, sociolinguistics, and the social sciences, but often with completely different agenda and emphases within different disciplinary domains.