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Fiction and the Weave of Life (Hardback)
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Short Description for Fiction and the Weave of LifePhilosophers have struggled to explain how literary fiction can be such an important source of insight into the human condition. John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 03 February 2008
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Literary Theory | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Philosophy: Aesthetics
- ISBN 13: 9780199299522 ISBN 10: 0199299528
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Full description for Fiction and the Weave of Life
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.
