Only imagine : fiction, interpretation and imagination / Kathleen Stock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stock, Kathleen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Fiction.

Fiction--History and criticism.

Truth in literature.

Intention in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Fiction, interpretation and imagination

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

'Only Imagine' offers a new theory of fictional content. Kathleen Stock argues for a controversial view known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the content of a particular work of fiction is equivalent to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to imagine.

Contents:

Introduction

Extreme intentionalism about fictional content

Intentionalist strategies of interpretation

Extreme intentionalism and its rivals

Fiction, belief, and 'imaginative resistance'

The nature of fiction

Back to the imagination.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 18, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-184808-5