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Fiction and Narrative

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By (author): Derek Matravers

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 imagine it. Derek Matravers argues that this rests on a mistake; the proffered definitions of 'the imagination' do not link it with fiction but with representations more generally. In place of the flawed consensus, he offers an account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative whether that narrative is fictional or non-fictional. The view that emerges, which draws extensively on work in psychology, downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction and largely dispenses with the imagination. In the process, he casts new light on a succession of issues: on the 'paradox of fiction', on the issue of fictional narrators, on the problem of 'imaginative resistance', and on the nature of our engagement with film. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 238g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Feb 2017
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780198776604

About Derek Matravers

After taking Philosophy for his first degree at University College London Derek Matravers went on to complete his doctorate at Cambridge. He was a Post-Doctoral Lecturer at Cambridge before moving to the Open University in 1994 where he is now Professor. He continues his links with Cambridge where he is a Senior Member of Darwin College. He has published extensively on aesthetics and to a lesser extent on ethics political philosophy and the philosophy of mind.

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