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Ellen Spolsky

Contracts of Fiction

Cognition, Culture, Community

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The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but epistemologically inert, the book considers how various kinds of fictions construct, guide, and challenge institutional relationships within social groups. The contracts of fiction, like the contracts of language, law, kinship, and money, describe the rules by which members of a group toggle between tokens and types, between their material surroundings - the stuff of daily life - and the abstractions that give it value. Rethinking some familiar literary concepts such as genre… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-023216-0
  • EAN: 9780190232160
  • Produktnummer: 18397044
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'479 KB
  • Abbildungen: 26 halftones

Über den Autor


Ellen Spolsky, Professor Emerita, taught in the English Department and was the Director of the Lechter Institute for Literary Research at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She is a literary theorist whose interests center on the cognitive/ epistemological aspects of interpretation and on the embodiment of knowing in language texts and in pictures, as these are manifest in their cultural/historical contexts.

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