Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human
condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to
provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For surely
the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary work
means that literature concerns itself not with the real world but with
other worlds - what are commonly called fictional worlds. How is it,
then, that fictions can tell us something of consequence about
reality? In Fiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel
and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and
life, and shows that literature's great cultural and cognitive value
is inseparable from its fictionality and inventiveness.
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ISBN
9780191538483
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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