As this example of accessibility ma

As this example of accessibility makes clear, questioning possibleworld thinking means challenging both our conventional theories of mimesis—the relation between work and world—as well as the very principle upon which we experience these narratives. Earlier in this chapter narrative theorists like Vitz have suggested that entirely different ways of thinking about authorship and the reception of the work are at play within medieval narratives. In these older narratives the relation between the reader and the text is not a puzzle in the way that is described by Goodman; there is no a priori problem of accessibility.