The Story-Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics: Some Variations on a Theme (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism)

by Brian Wicker (Author)

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  2013

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  Story-telling, since its earliest beginnings, has drawn its power not simply from the intrinsic fascination of a skilful narrative but from the fact that human beings are compelled to make `fictions' if they are to explain and come to terms with the world they experience. This holds true, as Mr Wicker shows in the course of a profound and wide-ranging enquiry, for the complex and often sophisticated novels and anti-novels of our own day just as much as for such traditional forms as myth and fairy-tale. The world remains `story-shaped'.