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A Sense of the World Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge
360 Pages
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Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate.
The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work... Read more
Introduction John Gibson Part 1: Narrative as a Form of Knowing 1. Narration and Knowledge Arthur Danto 2. The Ends of Narrative Richard Eldridge 3. Problems of Holocaust Fiction Bernard Harrison 4. The Truth about Stories is that that's All We Are Linda Hutcheon 5. Narrative and the Fulfillment of Knowledge John Gibson Part 2: Fiction & Cognition 6. Learning from Literature Peter Lamarque Cognitive Functions of Fiction Catherine Z. Elgin 7. Poetry and Cognition Eileen John 8. Fiction, Simulation, and Knowledge Susan Feagin 9. Nonsense, Logic, and Wishing A. D. Nuttall 10. Knowledge Across Fictional Worlds and Real Worlds Lubomir Dolezel 11. Drawing Inferences from Literature Wolfgang Huemer Part 3: The Epistemology of Literary Appreciation 12. Myths and Legends Kendall Walton 13. Interpretation, Emergence, and Insight Wolfgang Iser 14. En Abyme:Internal Models and Cognitive Mapping Brian McHale 15. The Return of the Represses: Caring about Fiction and its Themes Luca Pocci
Biography
John Gibson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, USA. He is co-editor (with Wolfgang Huemer) of The Literary Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2004).
Wolfgang Huemer is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is author of The Constitution of Consciousness. A Study on Analytic Phenomenology (Routledge, 2004).
Luca Pocci received his PhD in Comparative Literature and currently teaches in Siena. The scope of his research interests range from literary theory (with a particular focus on thematic criticism) to interdisciplinary fields, such as the interplay between the discourses of fiction and historiography.
"...this volume makes an important contribution by focusing on several areas in which literary fiction and narrative remain of vital contemporary philosophical interest." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
