The Edges of Fiction
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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 course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ignorance into knowledge.
In the modern age, argues Ranci re, this...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1509530452
ISBN13:9781509530458
Release Date:December 2019
Publisher:Polity Press
Length:180 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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