Why Fiction? (Stages)

by Jean-MarieSchaeffer (Author), Dorrit Cohn (Translator)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $90.43

  In Why Fiction? - one of the most important works of narrative theory to come out of France in recent years - Jean-Marie Schaeffer understands fiction not as a literary genre but, in contrast to other literary theorists, as a genre of life. The result is arguably the first systematic refutation of Plato's polemic against fiction and an argument for regarding fiction as having a cognitive function.