Why Fiction?

by Jean-Marie Schaeffer

In Why Fiction?--one of the most important works of narrative theory to come out of France in recent years--Jean-Marie Schaeffer understands fiction not as a literary genre but, in contrast to all other literary theorists, as a genre of life. The result is arguably the first systematic refutation of Plato's polemic against fiction and a persuasive argument for regarding fiction as having a cognitive function. For Schaeffer fiction includes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803217587
• ISBN13: 9780803217584
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"