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What mysteries lie at the heart of fiction's power to enchant and engage the mind? Empty Revelations considers a number of philosophical problems that fiction raises, including the primary issue of how we can think and talk about things that do not exist. Peter Alward covers thought-provoking terrain, exploring fictional truth, the experience of being "caught up" in a story, and the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. At the centre of Alward's argument is a figure known as the "narrative informant" who mediates the reader's encounter with fictional events through - sometimes unreliable - reporting. Developing a theory in which the author is a sculptor who constructs works of fiction out of words, Alward demonstrates that much of the confusion about fiction stems from a failure to properly distinguish between writing fiction and telling stories. Combining clarity, philosophical sophistication, ingenuity, and originality, Empty Revelations is a rewarding read for both scholars of philosophy and anyone interested in the complex ways that fiction works.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Full title: Empty Revelations
• Subtitle: An Essay on Talk about, and Attitudes toward, Fiction
• Author: Peter Alward
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780773540385
• ISBN: 0773540385
• ID: 04919244
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. August 2012

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