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Fiction - A Philosophical Analysis (Hardcover)
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Fiction - A Philosophical Analysis (Hardcover)
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By taking a distinctively institutional approach, Catharine Abell
provides a unified solution to a wide range of philosophical
problems raised by fiction. In particular, she draws attention to
the epistemology of fiction, which has not yet attracted the
philosophical scrutiny it warrants. There has been considerable
discussion of what determines the contents of works of fiction, yet
few attempts have been made to explain how audiences identify their
contents, or to identify the norms governing the correct
understanding and interpretation of them. This book answers both
metaphysical and epistemological questions concerning fiction in a
way that clarifies the relation between them: What distinguishes
works of fiction from works of non-fiction? What is the nature of
fictive utterances? How do audiences identify the contents of
authors' fictive utterances? How does understanding a work of
fiction differ from interpreting it? This book develops the first
single theory to provide answers to these questions and many more.
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