Karen Petroski, "Fictionality "
English | ISBN: 0367752298 | 2023 | 220 pages | EPUB, PDF | 449 KB + 11 MB
Does fiction enhance reality, or threaten our sense of what is real? What, if anything, is special about experiencing fictional works and worlds? Today we speak casually of parallel universes and virtual reality; how much do we really know about what these phenomena involve?
In Fictionality, Karen Petroski explains how philosophers and literary theorists have approached these questions in the Western literary tradition, from Greek antiquity to the present day. The book introduces readers to both long-running and contemporary debates about:
The value and dangers of engagement with fiction
The origins of fictional artworks, especially literary works, in Western literature
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