Truth, Fiction, and Literature

A Philosophical Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID10694493
AuthorsBerys Gaut (0000-0003-4966-5874)
Year1996
Volume105
Issue1
Pages84
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofTruth, Fiction, and Literature: A Philosophical Perspective, Peter Lamarque, 1996
VenueThe Philosophical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2185767
OpenAlexW2169192489
LanguageEN

Introduction: setting the scene. Part 1 Fiction and truth: the practice of storytelling truth-value and pretence content and characters reference and about aspects, points of view and objectivity relating internal/external and subjective/objective. Part 2 The limits of fictionality: metaphysics and fictions truth-making and world-making narrative and imagination. Part 3 Literature and truth: literary practice literature and fiction the theory of novelistic truth the propositional theory of literary truth metaphorical truth literature as philosophy the mimetic aspect of literature fiction, literature and value

Analytic philosophy · Art · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Perspective (graphical) · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy

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