Fiction and the weave of life /
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| Author / Creator: | Gibson, John, 1969- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | 201 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6696991 |
| Summary: | Literary fiction is of crucial importance in human life. It is a source of understanding and insight into the nature of the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible explanation of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary text means that fiction presents not the real world, but emother/em worlds - what are commonly called emfictional/em worlds. In emFiction and the Weave of Life/em, 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 201 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-198) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199299522 0199299528 |