Why fiction?
By: Jean-Marie Schaeffer ; translated [from the French] by Dorrit Cohn.
Contributors: Cohn, Dorrit.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780803217584
Subjects: Mimesis in literature; Imitation in literature; Fiction -- History and criticism; Fiction -- Technique
Work titles: Pourquoi la fiction?.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who is afraid of imitation?; title: Mimesis: to imitate, to feign, to represent, and to know; title: Fiction; title: Some fictional device.