Understanding fiction : : knowledge and meaning in literature / / Jürgen Daiber [and three others] (editors).
The book addresses the questions how literature can convey knowledge and how literary meaning can arise in the face of the fact that fictional texts waive the usual claim to truth. Based on the interdisciplinary cooperation of literary scholars and analytic philosophers, the present anthology attemp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Münster : : Mentis,, [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p. ) |
| Notes: | International conference proceedings at University of Regensburg on 23-25 June, 2011. |
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| Summary: | The book addresses the questions how literature can convey knowledge and how literary meaning can arise in the face of the fact that fictional texts waive the usual claim to truth. Based on the interdisciplinary cooperation of literary scholars and analytic philosophers, the present anthology attempts a) to analyze the possibility and conditions of gaining know - ledge through literature, and b) to apply, in a fruitful way, philosophical theories of meaning and interpretation to the constitution of meaning within the language of literature. The project is guided by the hypothesis that the cognitive function of literature cannot be understood without such fundamental modelings of the complex interaction of meaning, truth and knowledge. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 3957439590 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Jürgen Daiber [and three others] (editors). |