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Fiction and the Weave of Life

Fiction and the Weave of Life

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Oxford University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199299522
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809.3
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 201
Weight: 364g
Height: 225mm
Width: 147mm
Spine width: 18mm