Fiction and the Weave of Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199642571)

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.

Author: John Gibson
ISBN-10: 0199642575
ISBN-13: 9780199642571
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2012
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d