Fiction and the Weave of Life

by John Gibson

Book Overview

Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary work means that
literature concerns itself not with the real world but with other worlds - what are commonly called fictional worlds. How is it, then, that fictions can tell us something...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199299528
• ISBN13: 9780199299522
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"