| Fiction and the Weave of Life Contributor(s): Gibson, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199642575 ISBN-13: 9780199642571 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 809.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.55 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 of consequence about reality? In Fiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and life, and shows that literature's great cultural and cognitive value is inseparable from its fictionality and inventiveness. |