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Only Imagine - Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination (Hardcover)
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Only Imagine - Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination (Hardcover)
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Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is
sometimes known, 'fictional truth'. The theory of fictional content
Kathleen Stock argues for is known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the
idea that the fictional content of a particular work is equivalent
to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to
imagine. Historically, this sort of view has been highly unpopular.
Literary theorists and philosophers alike have poured scorn upon
it. The first half of this book attempts to argue that it should in
fact be taken very seriously as an adequate account of fictional
truth: better, in fact, than many of its more popular rivals. The
second half explores various explanatory benefits of extreme
intentionalism for other issues in the philosophy of fiction and
imagination. Namely, can fiction give us reliable knowledge? Why do
we 'resist' imagining certain fictions? What, in fact, is a
fiction? And, how should the imagination be characterised?
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