A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book that examines how works of literary fiction can be sources of knowledge
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A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book that examines how works of literary fiction can be sources of knowledge
Front Cover; A Sense of the World; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: the prospects of literary cognitivism: John Gibson; Part I: Knowledge through literary fiction; 2. Learning from literature: Peter Lamarque; 3. Literary realism, recognition, and the communication of knowledge: Noël Carroll; 4. The laboratory of the mind: Catherine Z. Elgin; 5. ''How Could You?'': deeper understanding through fiction: Susan L. Feagin; 6. Aharon Appelfeld and the problem of Holocaust fiction: Bernard Harrison
7. The return of the repressed: caring about literature and its themes: Luca Pocci8. Lewis Carroll: fugitive from reality?: A. D. Nuttall; Part II: Narrating worlds and selves; 9. Philosophy as/and/of literature: Arthur C. Danto; 10. The ends of narrative: Richard Eldridge; 11. Narrative catharsis: Garry L. Hagberg; 12. Postmodern narratives of the past: Simon Schama: Lubomír Doležel ; 13. En Abyme: Internal models and cognitive mapping: Brian Mchale; 14. Traveling stories: Knowledge, activism, and the humanities: Linda Hutcheon; Part III: The poetic, the dramatic, and the real
15. Poetry and cognition: Eileen John16. Why read literature?: The cognitive function of form: Wolfgang Huemer; 17. ''The way light at the edge of a beach in autumn is learned'': Literature as learning: Frank B. Farrell; 18. Wonder in The Winter's Tale: a cautionary account of epistemic criticism: Charles Altieri; Part IV: Imagination, objectivity, and culture; 19. Legends and myths: Kendall L. Walton; 20. Literature and make-believe: Joseph Margolis; 21. Art and the view from nowhere: Alex Burri; 22. Culture: A recursive process: Wolfgang Iser; Index
