Only Imagine Fiction Interpretation And Imagination Kathleen Stock by Kathleen Stock 9780198798347, 0198798342 instant download after payment.

Only Imagine offers a new theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth', which will be of interest to philosophers, those working in literary studies, and anyone else interested in the theoretical side of fiction. Kathleen Stock argues for a controversial view known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the content of a particular work of fiction is equivalent to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to imagine. Historically this sort of view has been unpopular with both literary theorists and philosophers. The first half of this book argues that this should be taken very seriously as an adequate account of fictional truth: better, in fact, than many of its more popular rivals. The second half explores various explanatory benefits of extreme intentionalism for other issues in the philosophy of fiction and imagination, engaging in contemporary debates whilst describing these clearly for the uninitiated. For example, can fiction give us reliable knowledge? Why do we 'resist' imagining certain fictions? Are there any limits to what we can imagine? What, in fact, is a fiction? And how should the imagination be characterized? Book jacket.
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