J. Gibson, Fiction and the Weave of Life

GIBSON, John, Fiction and the Weave of Life, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, 212 p.
ISBN-13 978-0-19-929952-2


RÉSUMÉ

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 about reality? In Fiction and the Weave of Life , John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and life, and shows that literature's great cultural and cognitive value is inseparable from its fictionality and inventiveness.

Readership: Advanced students and scholars of aesthetics and literature; anyone with an interest in the relationship between fiction and everyday life.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Introduction
1. The Loss of the Real
2. Literature & the Sense of the World
3. Beyond Truth and Triviality
4. The Work of Criticism
5. The Fictional & the Real
Conclusion


BIOGRAPHIE

John Gibson, University of Louisville.