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Author Matravers, Derek, author.

Title Fiction and narrative / Derek Matravers
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Contents Introduction -- Walton on fiction -- Fiction and the imagination -- The real distinction -- Understanding narratives -- Engaging with narratives -- Narrative and belief -- The (so-called) 'paradox of fiction' -- Narrators, impossible fictions, and the 'fictionality puzzle' -- Coda: Film
Summary Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 29, 2014)
Subject Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Fiction.
Imagination (Philosophy)
fiction (general genre)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Fiction
Imagination (Philosophy)
Diskursanalyse
Fiktion
Literatur
Narrativ Grammatik
Literaturtheorie
Imagination
Philosophie
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191779381
0191779385
0191018058
9780191018053