
Understanding Fiction
Knowledge and Meaning in Literature
Brill Deutschland (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 23. May 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-3-89785-790-2 (ISBN)
Description
The book addresses the questions how literature can convey knowledge and how literary meaning can arise in the face of the fact that fictional texts waive the usual claim to truth. Based on the interdisciplinary cooperation of literary scholars and analytic philosophers, the present anthology attempts a) to analyze the possibility and conditions of gaining know - ledge through literature, and b) to apply, in a fruitful way, philosophical theories of meaning and interpretation to the constitution of meaning within the language of literature. The project is guided by the hypothesis that the cognitive function of literature cannot be understood without such fundamental modelings of the complex interaction of meaning, truth and knowledge.
More details
Edition
2012
Language
English
German
Place of publication
Germany
Publishing group
Brill | mentis
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 15.4 cm
Weight
372 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-89785-790-2 (9783897857902)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
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ISNI: 0000 0004 3981 2989 GND: 1050907035
ISNI: 0000 0004 3444 4929 GND: 1051531829