“Virtual Fictional/Factual Positioning”: mediating dialogical concepts in psychological and literary studies

• Main Authors: Barani, Forough, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam, Talif, Rosli
• Format: Article
• Published: Sage Publications 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35988/; http://tap.sagepub.com/content/24/6/755.abstract
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

At the intersection of psychological and literary studies and acknowledging dialogical aspects of the self in Herman’s Dialogical Self Theory (DST), we coined the concept of “Virtual Fictional/Factual Positioning” (VFP), which is also guided by Bakhtin’s discussion on the author-hero relation. VFP e...