Fiction and Narrative

by Derek Matravers

Book Overview

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in terms of the imagination: what it is for something to be fictional is that there is some requirement that a reader imagine it. Derek Matravers argues that this rests on a mistake; the proffered definitions of 'the imagination' do not link it with fiction but with representations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199647011
• ISBN13: 9780199647019
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"