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Fiction and narrative/
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 i...
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Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=6YhSAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Walton on fiction
- Fiction and the imagination
- The real distinction
- Understanding narratives
- Engaging with narratives
- Narrative and belief
- The (so-called) 'paradox of fiction'
- Narrators, impossible fictions, and the 'fictionality puzzle'
- Coda: Film.