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180 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781509530458
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12 December 2019
Description
What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality - this was the thesis of Aristotle's Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary cou...
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180 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781509530458
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12 December 2019
Description
What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality - this was the thesis of Aristotle's Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary cou...