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Fiction and the Weave of Life
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Verlag: | OUP Oxford |
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Veröffentl.: | 06.12.2007 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9780191538483 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 212 |
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Beschreibungen
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 ofconsequence 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.