A sense of the world : essays on fiction, narrative, and knowledge
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A sense of the world : essays on fiction, narrative, and knowledge
（Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy, 6）
Routledge, 2007
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Includes index
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Description
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 of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore:
literature's contribution to ethical life
literature's ability to engage in social and political critique
the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood
This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Narrative as a Form of Knowing 1. Narration and Knowledge 2. The Ends of Narrative 3. Problems of Holocaust Fiction 4. The Truth about Stories is that that's All We Are 5. Narrative and the Fulfillment of Knowledge Part 2: Fiction & Cognition 6. Learning from Literature CognitiveFunctions of Fiction 7. Poetry and Cognition 8. Fiction, Simulation, and Knowledge 9. Nonsense, Logic, and Wishing 10. Knowledge Across Fictional Worlds and Real Worlds 11. Drawing Inferences from Literature Part 3: The Epistemology of Literary Appreciation 12. Myths and Legends 13. Interpretation, Emergence, and Insight 14. En Abyme:Internal Models and Cognitive Mapping 15. The Return of the Represses: Caring about Fiction and its Themes
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