Overview

The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas. This volume offers something entirely new: a selection of multidisciplinary perspectives on fiction written by an international team of contributors at the forefront of their fields, providing a spectrum of approaches to compare and contrast. This volume, divided between historical, cognitive, aesthetic and non-western approaches, targets a wide range of topics, including mathematics, history, religion and metaphysics. This is a seminal volume on one of the most important topics in the humanities.

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Author:   Ananta Ch. Sukla (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.838kg
ISBN:  

9781472575036

ISBN 10:   1472575032
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   24 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Ananta Sukla I. Historical Perspectives 1. Fiction's False Start David Konstan 2. The Poetic Pragmatics of Greek Myths: Referential Fiction and Ritual Performance Claude Calame II. Interdisciplinary Perspectives 3. Fictionality of the Absolute: On Truth and Lie in the Metaphysical and Aesthetic Sense Peter Heron 4. Mathematical Fictions Jody Azzouni 5. Why Suicide Bomber Bombs: Fictionality of Rituals Ivan Strenski 6. Fiction and History Allen Speight 7. Cognitive Value of (Literary) Fiction Robert Stecker 8. Fiction, Cognition, and Confusion Jukka Mikkonen 9. Epistemology and Fiction: Thought Experiments in Personal Identity Aleks Zarnitsyn 10. Semantics of Fiction: Naming and Metonymy Carl Ehrett 11. The Fictional Truth: Nonfiction and Narration Sarah Worth 12. Fiction as a Creative Process Amanda Garcia 13. Fiction and Emotion: The Relation of Consciousness to the Economy of Evolution Samuel Kimball III. Aesthetic Perspectives 14. How to Reach Fictional Worlds Lubomir Dolezel 15. Literature, Fictionality, and the Illusion of Self-Presence Samuel Kimball 16. Judicial Fiction and Literary Fiction: The Example of the Factum Christian Biet 17. Pictorial Fiction: Imagination and Power of Picasso's Images Charles Altieri 18. Sonic Fiction: The Truth in Music Geraldine Finn 19. Gestural Fiction: Dance Renee Conroy 20. Fictionality of theTheatrical Performance Roderick Nicholls 21. Fictionality in Film and Photography David Fenner 22. Fictions Sharing Subjectivity Rob van Gerwen IV. Oriental Perspectives 23. Fundamentals of Fiction in Indian Mythology, Poetics and Dramaturgy Ananta Sukla 24. Fiction in the Chinese Mythical and Literary Traditions Amy Lee 25. Truth and Fiction in the Japanese Narrative: Sakaguchi Ango's Critique of the I-Novel Robert Steen 26. Fiction in the Medieval Arabic Literary Tradition Arkady Nedel A Concluding Note Ananta Sukla Integrated Bibliography and Works Cited Index

Reviews

Professor Sukla presents a superb and comprehensive collection by a team of distinguished scholars, on the pluridisciplinarity and intermedial study of fiction, addressing its ontology and epistemology in a dialogue across artistic practices, that incorporates reflections on fictionality in various modes (textual, pictorial, sonic and audio-visual) as well as distinct cultural and temporal settings worldwide. Asun Lopez-Varela, Prof. of Semiotics and Comparative InterArt Studies at Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain An impressive collection of studies edited by Ananta Sukla and authored by the best specialists in a variety of fields. Fiction, they show, is present in virtually all human activites, from cognition to emotion and from mathematics to religion. A fascinating section on Asia perspective gives the collection a global dimension. Professor Sukla enphasizes the power of fiction to reshape reality in the light of human values. A splendid success, this collection is required reading for anyone interested in the nature of fiction. Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Lang Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, USA A philosophical feast, required reading for all scholars interested in the truth about fiction. William Irwin, Professor of Philosophy, King's College, Pennsylvania, USA

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Ananta Sukla is a former Professor and Head of the Department of English at Sambalpur University and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Aesthetics, University of Uppsala, Sweden. His publications include Art and Representation (2001), Art and Experience (2003), Art and Essence (2003), and Art and Expression (2011).

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