Only imagine : fiction, interpretation, and imagination /

Only Imagine offers a new theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth,' which will be of interest to philosophers, those working in literary studies, and anyone else interested in the theoretical side of fiction. Kathleen Stock argues for a controversial view...

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Main Author: Stock, Kathleen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Extreme intentionalism about fictional content -- Intentionalist strategies of interpretation -- Extreme intentionalism and its rivals -- Fiction, belief, and 'imaginative resistance' -- The nature of fiction -- Back to the imagination. 
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