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Fiction and Narrative (Paperback)
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For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in
philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the
imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in terms of
the imagination: what it is for something to be fictional is that
there is some requirement that a reader imagine it. Derek Matravers
argues that this rests on a mistake; the proffered definitions of
'the imagination' do not link it with fiction but with
representations more generally. In place of the flawed consensus,
he offers an account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a
narrative whether that narrative is fictional or non-fictional. The
view that emerges, which draws extensively on work in psychology,
downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction and largely
dispenses with the imagination. In the process, he casts new light
on a succession of issues: on the 'paradox of fiction', on the
issue of fictional narrators, on the problem of 'imaginative
resistance', and on the nature of our engagement with film.
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