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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Derek Matravers (The Open University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.238kg ISBN: 9780198776604ISBN 10: 0198776608 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 23 February 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Walton on Fiction 3: Fiction and the Imagination 4: The Real Distinction 5: Understanding Narratives 6: Engaging with Narratives 7: Narrative and Belief 8: The (so-called) Paradox of Fiction 9: Narrators, Impossible Fictions, and the 'Fictionality Puzzle' 10: Coda: FilmReviewsFiction and Narrative is a concise work that consists of short chapters tightly packed with arguments; yet, it manages to do a lot. In addition to providing an intriguing theoretical reorientation, the book has substantial value in clarifying (and questioning) recent debates around fiction. * Jukka Mikkonen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * This book is a total game changer for anyone interested in the philosophy of fiction, aesthetics, and narrative . . . a natural next step in the genealogy of our explanations about our engagement with fiction as well as an excellent theoretical framework for making sense of fiction, nonfiction, and understanding narrative . . . Although Walton, Currie, and Lamarque and Olsen have commented on their critics for the past 25 years, I believe that Matravers has posed the most significant challenge to the consensus view since Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe. * Sarah Worth, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * An excellent, ambitious book, there is no doubt that Fiction and Narrative will make many of us think a little harder about these two pesky categories. * Anna Christina Ribeiro, The Philosophical Quarterly * This book is a total game changer for anyone interested in the philosophy of fiction, aesthetics, and narrative ... a natural next step in the genealogy of our explanations about our engagement with fiction as well as an excellent theoretical framework for making sense of fiction, nonfiction, and understanding narrative ... Although Walton, Currie, and Lamarque and Olsen have commented on their critics for the past 25 years, I believe that Matravers has posed the most significant challenge to the consensus view since Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe. Sarah Worth, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Fiction and Narrative is a concise work that consists of short chapters tightly packed with arguments; yet, it manages to do a lot. In addition to providing an intriguing theoretical reorientation, the book has substantial value in clarifying (and questioning) recent debates around fiction. Jukka Mikkonen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Author InformationAfter 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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