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Only imagine: fiction, interpretation and imagination
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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:53 authored by Kathleen StockIn the first half of this book, I offer a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, ‘fictional truth’.The theory of fictional content I argue for is ‘extreme intentionalism’. The basic idea – very roughly, in ways which are made precise in the book - is that the fictional content of a particular text is equivalent to exactly what the author of the text intended the reader to imagine. The second half of the book is concerned with showing how extreme intentionalism and the lessons learnt from it can illuminate cognate questions in the philosophy of fiction and imagination. For instance, I argue, my position helps us to explain how fiction can provide us with reliable testimony (Chapters 3 and 4); it helps explain the phenomenon of imaginative resistance (Chapter 4); and it fits with, and so supports, a persuasive theory of the nature of fiction itself (Chapter 5). In my final chapter (Chapter 6), I show how attending to intentionalist practices of interpreting fictional content can illuminate the nature of propositional imagining itself.
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The nature of imaginative engagement with fiction; R2F8; AHRC
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Oxford University PressPages
234.0Place of publication
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9780198798347Department affiliated with
- Philosophy Publications
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2016-09-14Usage metrics
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