Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, Community

by Ellen Spolsky

The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but epistemologically inert, the book considers how various kinds of fictions construct, guide, and challenge institutional relationships within social groups. The contracts of fiction, like the contracts of language, law, kinship, and money, describe the rules by which members of a group...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190232145
• ISBN13: 9780190232146
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"