Philosophers 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. Literature is a source of understanding andinsight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers havestruggled 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 fictionscan tell us something of consequence aboutreality? 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. INDICE: Introduction The Loss of the Real Literature & the Sense of the World Beyond Truth and Triviality The Work of Criticism The Fictional & the Real Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-964257-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 212
- Fecha Publicación: 05/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés