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Fiction and the Weave of Life

By John Gibson

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2008
ISBN
0199299528, 9780199299522
LCC
PN3491 .G53 2007
Open Library ID
OL10146619M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
944 kB (966896 bytes)
Pages
234\212
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Literary fiction is of crucial importance in human life. It is a source of understanding and insight into the nature of the human condition, yet ever since Plato, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible explanation of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary text means that fiction presents not our world, but other worlds (what we might call 'fictional worlds')? InFiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world.

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