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Fictionality (Paperback)
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Fictionality (Paperback)
Series: The New Critical Idiom
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Does fiction enhance reality or threaten our sense of what is real?
What, if anything, is special about experiencing fictional works
and worlds? Today we speak casually of parallel universes and
virtual reality; how much do we really know about what these
phenomena involve? In Fictionality, Karen Petroski explains how
philosophers and literary theorists have approached these questions
in the Western literary tradition from Greek antiquity to the
present day. The book introduces readers to both long-running and
contemporary debates about: * The value and dangers of engagement
with fiction; * The origins of fictional artworks, especially
literary works, in Western literature; * The role played by
imagination in engaging with fiction; * The peculiarities of
fictional "worlds"; * The structure of linguistic reference within
fictional artworks; * The functions of fictionality in
non-linguistic artworks such as film and television; * The role
played by fictionality outside artworks, for example in philosophy,
law, and politics. Fictionality offers an accessible and
comprehensive introduction to this field of increasing critical and
theoretical interest. Bringing together theoretical insights from a
variety of perspectives, it will be an essential resource for
anyone studying fictionality.
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