Understanding fiction : : knowledge and meaning in literature / / Jürgen Daiber [and three others] (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Daiber, Jürgen, 1961-
• 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.

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.

Table of Contents

Literature as thought / Robert Stecker -- Cognitive dimensions of achieving (and failing) in literature / Wolfgang Huemer -- The cognitive value of fictional names / Daniel Hartenstein -- Thought theory and literary cognition / Peter Lamarque -- On making and understanding imaginative experiences in our engagement with fictional narratives / Tilmann Köppe -- Why no one's afraid of Stanley Fish--on panfictionalism and knowledge / Eva-Maria Konrad -- Knowledge from fiction / Maria E. Reicher -- On the very idea of a textual meaning / Olier Scholz -- Locating literary meaning : a formal framework for a philological principle of charity / Thomas Petraschka -- How literature communicates : a cognitive pragmatic perspective / Barbara MacMahon -- Literature, pluralism, and the critique of evaluative concepts / Eileen John -- On referring to Ferraris--the act of reference and predication in fictional discourse / Christiana Werner -- Nine reductionisms in hermeneutics as nine ways of unilaterally focusing on single moments in the process of understanding / Vittorio Hösle.