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Bernard Harrison

What Is Fiction For?

Literary Humanism Restored

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How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of human reality or the human condition? Can mere words illuminate something that we call reality? Bernard Harrison answers these questions in this profoundly original work that seeks to re-enfranchise reality in the realms of art and discourse. In an ambitious account of the relationship between literature and cognition, he seeks to show how literary fiction, by deploying words against a background of imagined circumstances, allows us to focus on the roots, in social practice, of the meanings by whic… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-253-01412-2
  • EAN: 9780253014122
  • Produktnummer: 20453217
  • Verlag: Indiana University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 620 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'187 KB

Über den Autor


Bernard Harrison is Emeritus E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah and Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory; The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion; and (with Patricia Hanna) Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language.

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