Understanding fiction
Subtitle: knowledge and meaning in literature
By: Jürgen Daiber, Eva-Maria Konrad, Thomas Petraschka, Hans Rott (eds.).
Contributors: Stecker, Robert, 1947-
Publisher: Mentis
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783897857902
Subjects: Fiction; Theory of Knowledge; History and criticism; Meaning (Philosophy); Theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Literature as thought / Robert Stecker; title: Cognitive dimensions of achieving (and failing) in literature / Wolfgang Huemer; title: The cognitive value of fictional names / Daniel Hartenstein; title: Thought theory and literary cognition / Peter Lamarque; title: On making and understanding imaginative experiences in our engagement with fictional narratives / Tilmann Köppe; title: Why no one's afraid of Stanley Fish; title: on panfictionalism and knowledge / Eva-Maria Konrad; title: Knowledge from fiction / Maria E. Reicher; title: On the very idea of a textual meaning / Olier Scholz; title: Locating literary meaning : a formal framework for a philological principle of charity / Thomas Petraschka; title: How literature communicates : a cognitive pragmatic perspective / Barbara MacMahon; title: Literature, pluralism, and the critique of evaluative concepts / Eileen John; title: On referring to Ferraris; title: the act of reference and predication in fictional discourse / Christiana Werner; title: Nine reductionisms in hermeneutics as nine ways of unilaterally focusing on single moments in the process of understanding / Vittorio Hösle.