The Routledge handbook of fiction and belief /
"The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics. This volume draws on global, cu...
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New York :
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Believing in fiction : philosophical and theoretical perspectives. Belief, imagination, and the nature of fiction / Stacie Friend
- The "willing suspension of disbelief" : the long history of a short phrase / Nicholas D. Paige
- The fictionality of games and the ludic nature of fiction : make-believe, immersion, play / Marie-Laure Ryan
- Fictional emotions and belief / Eva-Maria Konrad
- Fictional characters and belief / Thomas Pavel
- Fictionality, the zone of generic fiction, and the allure of unreliable narration / James Phelan
- Belief is a mess. That makes it good for fiction. (A perspective from cognitive literary theory) / Lisa Zunshine
- Fiction and historiography / Annick Louis
- Fiction and scientific knowledge / Adam Toon
- Learning from fiction / Gregory Currie, Heather Ferguson, Jacopo Frascaroli, Stacie Friend, Kayleigh Green, and Lena Wimmer
- Part II. From fiction to belief : social and political effects. Do fictions impact people's beliefs? A critical view / Edgar Dubourg and Nicolas Baumard
- The impact of fiction on beliefs about gender / Vera Nünning
- Implicit bias, fiction, and belief / Kris Goffin and Agnes Moors
- Children's ideas about stories and about reality / Ayse Payir and Paul L. Harris
- From suspension of disbelief to production of belief : the case of alternate reality games / Patrick Jagoda
- Interactive environments and fictional engagement / Olivier Caïra
- Fake news and fictional news / Jessica Pepp, Rachel Sterken, and Eliot Michaelson
- Trust, credulity, and speech / Philippe Roussin
- Literature on credit : fiction and fiduciary paradigm / Emmanuel Bouju and Loïse Lelevé
- Fifth-generation fictionality? Fiction, politics, war / Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen
- Uses of fantasy fiction in contemporary political mobilization / Anne Besson
- Fiction, belief, and postcolonial criticism / Alok Yadav
- Can fictions prevent the future? / Anne Duprat
- Dystopian fictions and contemporary fears / Jean-Paul Engélibert
- Fiction, belief, and climate change : paratexts, skeptics, and objects of care / Erin James
- Part III. Fiction and religious belief. Greek mythology : discourse, belief, and ritual action / Claude Calame
- Fiction and belief : approaching medieval Latin Christendom / Julie Orlemanski
- Literary fictions, "fables," and unbelief in the West / Nicolas Correard
- Saints, between faith, belief, and fiction / Barbara Selmeci Castioni
- The role of fiction in Buddhist hagiography : the case of Shinran / Markus Rüsch
- Fiction and belief in ancient and early medieval India / Isabelle Ratié
- Fiction, religion, and premodern Arab-Islamic literature (eighth-eighteenth centuries) / Aboubakr Chraïbi
- Fiction against belief and belief in fiction in modern and contemporary Arabic literature / Éve de Dampierre-Noiray
- On Jewish fiction and belief : duplicity, parables, confession / Sarah Hammerschlag
- Religious uses of fantasy fiction / Markus Altena Davidsen
- Fake cults, hyper-real religions, virtual beliefs at the crossroads of fiction, the sacred, and technology / Lionel Obadia.