Fictional Realities : The uses of literary imagination.
Title:
Fictional Realities : The uses of literary imagination.
Author:
Mooij, J.J.A.
ISBN:
9789027276834
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Series:
Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature ; v.30
Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature
Contents:
FICTIONAL REALITIES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Philosophers on the Imagination: From Plato to Hegel -- 1. From Plato to the Middle of the 18th Century -- 2. From Kant to Hegel -- II. Romantic Themes and Later Developments -- 1. Three Issues -- 2. The Creative Imagination -- 3. The Unifying Imagination -- 4. Reality and Unreality -- III. Imaginative Reporting: The Minimal Conditions of a Story -- 1. Some Views on the Nature of Narrativity -- 2. The Three Conditions of a Story -- IV. Fictional Discourse and the Theory of Speech Acts -- 1. The Negative Side: Fictionality Not Based on Fictitious Speech Acts -- 2. The Positive Side: Fictionality Based on Real Speech Acts -- V. Fictional Objects -- 1. The Problem of Their Existence -- 2 The Nature of Their Existence -- VI. Realism in Fiction -- 1. The Features of Realism as a Typological Notion -- 2. Internal Tensions -- 3. Realism and Reference -- VII. Symbolism and Realism -- 1. Introductory Remarks -- 2. A Case Study, and Further Examples -- VIII. Metaphor, Truth and Poetry -- 1. On the Truth of Metaphorical Statements -- 2 How to Interpret Poetic Metaphors (and Their Truth) -- IX. Literature in the Mirror of Her Sister Arts -- 1. Literature between Music and the Visual Arts -- 2. Some Paradigms -- X. On the Value of Literature in Relation to Science -- 1. Dimensions of Literary Value -- 2. Literary Imagination and Scientific Rationality -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book is a study of the role of the imagination. It focuses on the imaginative use of language in literature (poetry and narrative prose); but it also touches on some more comprehensive issues, for the questions it discusses are questions regarding the relationship between mind, reality and unreality. The first two chapters survey the thinking about the imagination in the history of philosophy. The main trends and the main problems are discussed, particularly in respect of the (positive or negative) evaluation of imagination. The subsequent chapters investigate the role of the imagination from a closer point of view. How is it that imagination appears in literary art? Central topics of discussion are the nature of narrativity, of fictional discourse and fictional objects, of realistic fiction, of symbolism and metaphor. Moreover, the similarities (both real and imagined) between literature and the other arts are explored. In all chapters attention is paid to the problem of the value of art and literary imagination. The last chapter addresses this issue head-on. In particular, it attempts to define the value of literature in relation to science.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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