Derek Matravers

Fiction and Narrative

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For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in terms of the imagination: what it is for something to be fictional is that there is some requirement that a reader imagine it. Derek Matravers argues that this rests on a mistake; the proffered definitions of 'the imagination' do not link it with fiction but with representations moregenerally. In place of the flawed consensus, he offers an account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative whether that narrative is fictional or non-fictional. The vie… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-101806-0
EAN: 9780191018060
Produktnummer: 16946802
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'996 KB

Über den Autor

After taking Philosophy for his first degree at University College London, Derek Matravers went on to complete his doctorate at Cambridge. He was a Post-Doctoral Lecturer at Cambridge, before moving to the Open University in 1994 where he is now Professor. He continues his links with Cambridge, where he is a Senior Member of Darwin College. He has published extensively on aesthetics, and to a lesser extent on ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy ofmind.