Fiction and narrative
Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.
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- Full title :Fiction and narrative / Derek Matravers.
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Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.
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- Publication Date:2014.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
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- Description:1 online resource
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- ISBN:9780191779381, 0191779385, 0191018058, 9780191018053
- oclc:ocn881141572
- LC Classification:P302.7
- Dewey Decimal:808.3014
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Walton on fiction -- Fiction and the imagination -- The real distinction -- Understanding narratives -- Engaging with narratives -- Narrative and belief -- The (so-called) 'paradox of fiction' -- Narrators, impossible fictions, and the 'fictionality puzzle' -- Coda: Film.
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