Fiction and the Weave of Life
by
John Gibson
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199299528
ISBN-13
9780199299522
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 6th, 2007
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
364 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 14.70 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryPhilosophyPhilosophy: aesthetics
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Philosophers have struggled to explain how literary fiction can be such an important source of insight into the human condition. John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world.
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.
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