Fiction and narrative /

Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

1. Verfasser:

Matravers, Derek

Format:

Elektronisch E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Veröffentlicht:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Zusammenfassung:

Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.

Umfang:

1 online resource (viii, 169 pages)

Anmerkungen:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Anmerkungen:

English

Bibliografie:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-177938-5
0-19-964701-1

Schlagworte:

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Fiction.

Imagination (Philosophy)

Bezugswerke:

Print version: 9780199647019

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