A Sense of the World

Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge

By: John Gibson (Editor), Wolfgang Huemer (Editor), Luca Pocci (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 August 2007 | Edition Number 1

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A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate.

The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore:

literature's contribution to ethical life
literature's ability to engage in social and political critique
the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood

This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.

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"...this volume makes an important contribution by focusing on several areas in which literary fiction and narrative remain of vital contemporary philosophical interest." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Notes on Contributors	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction: the prospects of literary cognitivism	p. 1
Knowledge through literary fiction	p. 11
Learning from literature	p. 13
Literary realism, recognition, and the communication of knowledge	p. 24
The laboratory of the mind	p. 43
"How Could You?": deeper understanding through fiction	p. 55
Aharon Appelfeld and the problem of Holocaust fiction	p. 67
The return of the repressed: caring about literature and its themes	p. 89
Lewis Carroll: fugitive from reality?	p. 104
Narrating worlds and selves	p. 119
Philosophy as/and/of literature	p. 121
The ends of narrative	p. 138
Narrative catharsis	p. 151
Postmodern narratives of the past: Simon Schama	p. 167
En Abyme: internal models and cognitive mapping	p. 189
Traveling stories: knowledge, activism, and the humanities	p. 206
The poetic, the dramatic, and the real	p. 217
Poetry and cognition	p. 219
Why read literature? The cognitive function of form	p. 233
"The way light at the edge of a beach in autumn is learned": literature as learning	p. 246
Wonder in The Winter's Tale: a cautionary account of epistemic criticism	p. 266
Imagination, objectivity, and culture	p. 287
Legends and myths	p. 289
Literature and make-believe	p. 293
Art and the view from nowhere	p. 308
Culture: a recursive process	p. 318
Index	p. 332
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