Fiction and art explorations in contemporary theory - Sukla, Ananta Charana 1942- (London Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
Introduction / Ananta Ch. Sukla -- Fiction's false start / David Donstan -- The poetic pragmatics of Greek myths : referential fiction and ritual performance / Claude Calame -- Fictionality of the absolute : on truth and lie in the metaphysical and aesthetic sense / Peter Heron -- Mathematical fictions / Jody Azzouni -- Why suicide bombers bomb : fictionality of rituals / Ivan Strenski -- Fiction and history / Allen Speight -- Cognitive value of (literary) fiction / Robert Stecker -- Fiction, cognition and confusion / Jukka Mikkonen -- Epistemology and fiction : thought experiments in personal identity / Aleks Zarnitsyn -- Semantics of fiction : naming the metonymy / Carl Ehrett -- The fictional truth : nonfiction and narration / Sarah Worth -- Fiction as a creative process / Amanda Garcia -- Fiction and emotion : the relation of consciousness to the economy of evolution / Samuel Kimball -- How to reach fictional worlds / Lubom?air Dole?ezel -- Literature, fictionality, and the illusion of self-presence / Samuel Kimball -- Judicial fiction and literary fiction : the example of the factum / Christian Biet -- Pictorial fiction : imagination and power of Picasso's images / Charles Altieri -- Sonic fiction : truth in music / Geraldine Finn -- Gestural fiction : dance / Renee Conroy -- Fictionality of the theatrical performance / Roderick Nicholls -- Fictionality in film and photography / David Fenner -- Fictions sharing subjectivity / Rob van Gerwen -- Fundamentals of fiction in Indian mythology, poetics and dramaturgy / Ananta Ch. Sukla -- Fiction in the Chinese Mythical and literary traditions / Amy Lee -- Truth and fiction in the Japanese narrative : Sakaguchi Ango's critique of the l-novel / Robert Steen -- Fiction in the medieval Arabic literary tradition / Arkady Nedel -- Concluding note / Ananta Ch. Sukla.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Fiction -- History and criticism; Fiction -- Technique; Art -- Philosophy; Art and literature; Aesthetics