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A Sense of the World
Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge
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eBook - ePub
A Sense of the World
Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge
About this book
A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate.
The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore:
- literature's contribution to ethical life
- literature's ability to engage in social and political critique
- the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood
This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.
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Yes, you can access A Sense of the World by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, Luca Pocci, John Gibson,Wolfgang Huemer,Luca Pocci in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Philosophy History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction The Prospects of Literary Cognitivism
- Part I Knowledge through Literary Fiction
- 2 Learning from Literature
- 3 Literary Realism, Recognition, and the Communication of Knowledge
- 4 The Laboratory of the Mind
- 5 “How Could You?” Deeper Understanding Through Fiction
- 6 Aharon Appelfeld and the Problem of Holocaust Fiction1
- 7 The Return of the Repressed Caring About Literature and Its Themes
- 8 Lewis Carroll Fugitive From Reality?
- Part II Narrating worlds and selves
- 9 Philosophy as/and/of Literature
- 10 The Ends of Narrative
- 11 Narrative Catharsis
- 12 Postmodern Narratives of the Past Simon Schama
- 13 En Abyme Internal Models and Cognitive Mapping
- 14 Traveling Stories Knowledge, Activism, and the Humanities
- Part III The poetic, the dramatic, and the real
- 15 Poetry and Cognition
- 16 Why Read Literature? The Cognitive Function of Form
- 17 “the Way Light at the Edge of a Beach in Autumn Is Learned” Literature As Learning
- 18 Wonder in The Winter's Tale A Cautionary Account of Epistemic Criticism
- Part IV Imagination, objectivity, and culture
- 19 Legends and Myths
- 20 Literature and Make-Believe
- 21 Art and the View From Nowhere
- 22 Culture A Recursive Process
- Index