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Fiction and the weave of life

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  • "In 'Fiction and the Weave of Life', John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world."
  • "Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary work means that literature concerns itself not with the real world but with other worlds - what are commonly called fictional worlds. How is it, then, that fictions can tell us something of consequence aboutreality? In Fiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between lit."
  • "Literary fiction is of crucial importance in human life. It is a source of understanding and insight into the nature of the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible explanation of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary text means that fiction presents not the real world, but "other" worlds - what are commonly called "fictional" worlds. In "Fiction and the Weave of Life", John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world."

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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  • "Fiction and the weave of life"
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