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Truth, Fiction, and Literature
A Philosophical Perspective
Taschenbuch von Olsen Lamarque (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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This book examines the complex and varied ways in which fictions relate to the real world, and offers a precise account of how imaginative works of literature can use fictional content to explore matters of universal human interest. While rejecting the traditional view that literature is
important for the truths that it imparts, the authors also reject attempts to cut literature off altogether from real human concerns. Their detailed account of fictionality, mimesis, and cognitive value, founded on the methods of analytical philosophy, restores to literature its distinctive status
among cultural practices. The authors also explore metaphysical and skeptical views, prevalent in modern thought, according to which the world Ptself is a kind of fiction, and truth no more than a social construct. They identify different conceptions of fiction in science, logic, epistemology, and
make-believe, and thereby challenge the idea that discourse per se is fictional and that different modes of discourse are at root indistinguishable. They offer rigorous analyses of the roles of narrative, imagination, metaphor, and "making" in human thought processes. Both in their methods and in
their conclusions, Lamarque and Olsen aim to restore rigor and clarity to debates about the values of literature, and to provide new, philosophically sound foundations for a genuine change of direction in literary theorizing.
This book examines the complex and varied ways in which fictions relate to the real world, and offers a precise account of how imaginative works of literature can use fictional content to explore matters of universal human interest. While rejecting the traditional view that literature is
important for the truths that it imparts, the authors also reject attempts to cut literature off altogether from real human concerns. Their detailed account of fictionality, mimesis, and cognitive value, founded on the methods of analytical philosophy, restores to literature its distinctive status
among cultural practices. The authors also explore metaphysical and skeptical views, prevalent in modern thought, according to which the world Ptself is a kind of fiction, and truth no more than a social construct. They identify different conceptions of fiction in science, logic, epistemology, and
make-believe, and thereby challenge the idea that discourse per se is fictional and that different modes of discourse are at root indistinguishable. They offer rigorous analyses of the roles of narrative, imagination, metaphor, and "making" in human thought processes. Both in their methods and in
their conclusions, Lamarque and Olsen aim to restore rigor and clarity to debates about the values of literature, and to provide new, philosophically sound foundations for a genuine change of direction in literary theorizing.
Über den Autor
Peter Lamarque is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull, England, and has recently been appointed Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Tsukuba (Japan) and the Australian National University. He is the editor of Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics (Aberdeen University Press, 1983). Stein Haugom Olsen is Professor of British Civilization Studies at the University of Oslo, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science (arts section). He is the author of The Structure of Literary Understanding (CUP, 1978) and The End of Literary Theory (CUP, 1987).

Stein Haugom Olsen is Professor of British Civilization Studies at the University of Oslo, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science (arts section). He is the author of The Structure of Literary Understanding (CUP, 1978) and The End of Literary Theory (CUP, 1987).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Setting the Scene

  • 2: The Practice of Storytelling

  • 3: Truth-Value and Pretence

  • 4: Content and Characters

  • 5: Reference and `About'

  • 6: Aspects, Points of View, Objectivity

  • 7: Metaphysics and Fictions

  • 8: Truth-Making and World-Making

  • 9: Narrative and Imagination

  • 10: Literary Practice

  • 11: Literature and Fiction

  • 12: The Theory of Novelistic Truth

  • 13: The Propositional Theory of Literary Truth

  • 14: Metaphorical Truth

  • 15: Literature as Philosophy

  • 16: The Mimetic Aspect of Literature

  • 17: Fiction, Literature, and Value

  • Bibliography, Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 496
ISBN-13: 9780198236818
ISBN-10: 0198236816
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lamarque, Olsen
Olsen, Stein H.
Lamarque, Peter
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 216 x 140 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Olsen Lamarque (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.1996
Gewicht: 0,693 kg
preigu-id: 108637634
Über den Autor
Peter Lamarque is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull, England, and has recently been appointed Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Tsukuba (Japan) and the Australian National University. He is the editor of Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics (Aberdeen University Press, 1983). Stein Haugom Olsen is Professor of British Civilization Studies at the University of Oslo, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science (arts section). He is the author of The Structure of Literary Understanding (CUP, 1978) and The End of Literary Theory (CUP, 1987).

Stein Haugom Olsen is Professor of British Civilization Studies at the University of Oslo, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science (arts section). He is the author of The Structure of Literary Understanding (CUP, 1978) and The End of Literary Theory (CUP, 1987).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Setting the Scene

  • 2: The Practice of Storytelling

  • 3: Truth-Value and Pretence

  • 4: Content and Characters

  • 5: Reference and `About'

  • 6: Aspects, Points of View, Objectivity

  • 7: Metaphysics and Fictions

  • 8: Truth-Making and World-Making

  • 9: Narrative and Imagination

  • 10: Literary Practice

  • 11: Literature and Fiction

  • 12: The Theory of Novelistic Truth

  • 13: The Propositional Theory of Literary Truth

  • 14: Metaphorical Truth

  • 15: Literature as Philosophy

  • 16: The Mimetic Aspect of Literature

  • 17: Fiction, Literature, and Value

  • Bibliography, Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 496
ISBN-13: 9780198236818
ISBN-10: 0198236816
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lamarque, Olsen
Olsen, Stein H.
Lamarque, Peter
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 216 x 140 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Olsen Lamarque (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.1996
Gewicht: 0,693 kg
preigu-id: 108637634
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