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Fiction and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory de Ananta Ch. Sukla

Fiction and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory

Editat de Ananta Ch. Sukla
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2015
The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas.

This volume offers something entirely new: a selection of multidisciplinary perspectives on fiction written by an international team of contributors at the forefront of their fields, providing a spectrum of approaches to compare and contrast. This volume, divided between historical, cognitive, aesthetic and non-western approaches, targets a wide range of topics, including mathematics, history, religion and metaphysics. This is a seminal volume on one of the most important topics in the humanities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472575036
ISBN-10: 1472575032
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 168 x 242 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ananta Sukla

I. Historical Perspectives

1. Fiction's False Start
David Konstan
2. The Poetic Pragmatics of Greek Myths:
Referential Fiction and Ritual Performance
Claude Calame

II. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

3. Fictionality of the Absolute:
On Truth and Lie in the Metaphysical and Aesthetic Sense
Peter Heron
4. Mathematical Fictions
Jody Azzouni
5. Why Suicide Bomber Bombs: Fictionality of Rituals
Ivan Strenski
6. Fiction and History
Allen Speight
7. Cognitive Value of (Literary) Fiction
Robert Stecker
8. Fiction, Cognition, and Confusion
Jukka Mikkonen
9. Epistemology and Fiction: Thought Experiments in Personal Identity
Aleks Zarnitsyn
10. Semantics of Fiction: Naming and Metonymy
Carl Ehrett
11. The Fictional Truth: Nonfiction and Narration
Sarah Worth
12. Fiction as a Creative Process
Amanda Garcia
13. Fiction and Emotion:
The Relation of Consciousness to the Economy of Evolution
Samuel Kimball

III. Aesthetic Perspectives

14. How to Reach Fictional Worlds
Lubomír Dolezel
15. Literature, Fictionality, and the Illusion of Self-Presence
Samuel Kimball
16. Judicial Fiction and Literary Fiction:
The Example of the Factum
Christian Biet
17. Pictorial Fiction:
Imagination and Power of Picasso's Images
Charles Altieri
18. Sonic Fiction: The Truth in Music
Geraldine Finn
19. Gestural Fiction: Dance
Renee Conroy
20. Fictionality of theTheatrical Performance
Roderick Nicholls
21. Fictionality in Film and Photography
David Fenner
22. Fictions Sharing Subjectivity
Rob van Gerwen

IV. Oriental Perspectives

23. Fundamentals of Fiction in Indian Mythology, Poetics and Dramaturgy
Ananta Sukla
24. Fiction in the Chinese Mythical and Literary Traditions
Amy Lee
25. Truth and Fiction in the Japanese Narrative:
Sakaguchi Ango's Critique of the I-Novel
Robert Steen
26. Fiction in the Medieval Arabic Literary Tradition
Arkady Nedel

A Concluding Note
Ananta Sukla
Integrated Bibliography and Works Cited
Index

Recenzii

In recent years, philosophers have devoted increasing attention to issues in the conceptuality of fiction. What is fiction? How does it differ from other forms of writing? To what extent can works of fiction convey truth? These are just some questions taken up in Fiction and Art-a collection that brings together 26 original essays by scholars of philosophy, literature, performing arts, and classical studies. Organized into four parts, the volume considers the role fiction plays not only in our conscious lives but also as a bearer of truth. Part 1 is devoted to historical perspectives; part 2, to interdisciplinary perspectives; part 3 examines the role of fiction in aesthetic culture; and part 4 looks at fiction in four Eastern cultures-Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic. One strength of this collection is the wide range of the contributors' backgrounds. As one might expect, analytic philosophy is well represented, but so too are Continental philosophy, postmodernism, and feminism. Sukla (English, Sambalpur Univ., India) has done a wonderful job of bringing together truly diverse essays. The collection will be of special interest to those doing interdisciplinary work on contemporary philosophy of art and fiction. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
The scope of this fascinating collection is more extensive than that of any previously published work on the subject. It raises important questions about the concept of fiction from a remarkably wide range of historical, disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
An impressive collection of studies edited by Ananta Sukla and authored by the best specialists in a variety of fields. Fiction, they show, is present in virtually all human activities, from cognition to emotion and from mathematics to religion. A fascinating section on Asia perspective gives the collection a global dimension. Professor Sukla emphasizes the power of fiction to reshape reality in the light of human values. A splendid success, this collection is required reading for anyone interested in the nature of fiction.
A philosophical feast, required reading for all scholars interested in the truth about fiction.
Professor Sukla presents a superb and comprehensive collection by a team of distinguished scholars, on the pluridisciplinarity and intermedial study of fiction, addressing its ontology and epistemology in a dialogue across artistic practices, that incorporates reflections on fictionality in various modes (textual, pictorial, sonic and audio-visual) as well as distinct cultural and temporal settings worldwide.
A fascinating spread of topics across historical contexts, disciplines and cultures. Anyone with an interest in the very idea of fiction will find much here to stimulate thought and deepen understanding.