Some 15 years ago I had the privilege of participating in a symposium entitled “fiction updated” held at the U of T on the occasion of Lubomir Dolezel’s retirement. At that time I took my clue from Lubomir’s work on fictional worlds’ semantics and spoke of characters and their versions across story worlds. Today, on another happy occasion, celebrating another milestone in Lubomir’s career, I thought that, following the theme of the conference, I should take my inspiration and point of departure alike from Dolezel’s other major line of research, that of meta theory and history of poetics.
