Fiction and Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780198776604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str.

Derek Matravers

Opis

Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.

Recenzje

An excellent, ambitious book, there is no doubt that Fiction and Narrative will make many of us think a little harder about these two pesky categories.

O autorze

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 of mind.