What Is Fiction For?: Literary Humanism Restored

by Bernard Harrison

Book Overview

How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of "human reality" or "the human condition"? Can mere words illuminate something that we call "reality"? Bernard Harrison answers these questions in this profoundly original work that seeks to re-enfranchise reality in the realms of art and discourse. In an ambitious account of the relationship between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253014085
• ISBN13: 9780253014085
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 620 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"