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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Other Authors: James, Alison (Alison Siân), 1976- (Editor), Kubo, Akihiro, 1973- (Editor), Lavocat, Françoise (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Series:Routledge literature handbooks.
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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.