虚構と日常生活 Fiction and the Weave of Life

Gibson, John

Oxford University Press（2007/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 212 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199299522
• DDC分類 809.3

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. Offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understnading of our world without literally being about our world.

Full Description

Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary work means that literature concerns itself not with the real world but with other worlds - what are commonly called fictional worlds. How is it, then, that fictions can tell us something of consequence about reality? In Fiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and life, and shows that literature's great cultural and cognitive value is inseparable from its fictionality and inventiveness.

Contents

Introduction ; 1. The Loss of the Real ; 2. Literature & the Sense of the World ; 3. Beyond Truth and Triviality ; 4. The Work of Criticism ; 5. The Fictional & the Real ; Conclusion