Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction

by Currie

Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges to this standpoint, he argues that within the domain of the imagination there lies a number of distinct and not well-recognized capacities which make the connection between fiction and imagination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192864688
• ISBN13: 9780192864680
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"