Fiction: a philosophical analysis
By taking a distinctively institutional approach, Catharine Abell provides a unified solution to a wide range of philosophical problems raised by fiction. In particular, she draws attention to the epistemology of fiction, which has not yet attracted the philosophical scrutiny it warrants. There has been considerable discussion of what determines the contents of works of fiction, yet few attempts have been made to explain how audiences identify their contents, or to identify the norms governing …
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- Full title :Fiction : a philosophical analysis / Catharine Abell.
Summary
By taking a distinctively institutional approach, Catharine Abell provides a unified solution to a wide range of philosophical problems raised by fiction. In particular, she draws attention to the epistemology of fiction, which has not yet attracted the philosophical scrutiny it warrants. There has been considerable discussion of what determines the contents of works of fiction, yet few attempts have been made to explain how audiences identify their contents, or to identify the norms governing the correct understanding and interpretation of them. This book answers both metaphysical and epistemological questions concerning fiction in a way that clarifies the relation between them : What distinguishes works of fiction from works of non-fiction? What is the nature of fictive utterances? How do audiences identify the contents of authors' fictive utterances? How does understanding a work of fiction differ from interpreting it? This book develops the first single theory to provide answers to these questions and many more.
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- Publication Date:2020.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 198 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780198831525, 0198831528
- oclc:on1137181411
- LC Classification:PN3491
- Dewey Decimal:809.3
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements -- Aims, scope, and overview -- Fiction institutions -- Fictive utterances -- The structure of fictive content -- Fictional entities -- External thought and talk about fiction -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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