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Creative non-fiction --- Creative nonfiction --- Fourth genre (creative nonfiction) --- Literary non-fiction --- Literary nonfiction --- Narrative nonfiction --- Non-fictie --- Non-fiction créative --- Non-fiction literature --- Non-fiction prose --- Non-fictional literature --- Non-fictional prose --- Nonfiction literature --- Nonfiction narrative --- Nonfiction prose --- Nonfictional literature --- Nonfictional prose --- Prose literature (creative nonfiction) --- Tales (creative nonfiction) --- Verhalende non-fictie
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Many people share the intuition that by turning to works of literature something can be learned about the world. One way to explain the epistemic access to the world that fictional literature provides is by comparing it to thought experiments. Both - thought experiments and works of fiction - might be seen as imaginative exercises which help to find out what would or could happen if certain conditions were met. This comparison of fictional literature with thought experiments provides the point of departure for the contributions in our volume. It contributes to the discussion of an approach that has quite recently entered the field of the philosophy of literature.
Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Gedankenexperiment --- Nicht-propositionales Wissen --- Vergegenwärtigung --- Kontrafaktische Literatur --- Kontrafaktisches Szenario --- Exemplifikation --- Philosophie der Literatur --- Literaturwissenschaft --- Wissen --- Methodologie der Erkenntnis --- Erkenntnis in fiktionaler Literatur --- Thought Experiment --- Non-propositional knowledge --- Representation --- Counterfactual Literature --- Counterfactual Scenario --- Exemplification --- Philosophy of Literature --- Literary Studies --- Knowledge --- Methodology of Knowledge --- Knowledge in Fictional Literature
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This book is about reading practice and experience in late medieval and early modern England. It focuses on the kinds of literatures that were more readily available to the widest spectrum of the population. Four case studies from many possibilities have been selected, each examining a particular type of popular literature under the headings 'religious', 'moral', 'practical' and 'fictional'. A key concern of the book is how we might use particular types of evidence in order to understand more about reading practice and experience, so issues of method and approach are discussed fully in the opening chapter. One distinctive element of this book is that it attempts to uncover evidence for the reading practices and experiences of real, rather than ideal, readers, using evidence that is found within the material of a book or manuscript itself, or within the structure of a specific genre of literature. Salter attempts to negotiate a path through a set of methodological and interpretive issues in order to arrive at a better understanding of how people may have read and what they may have read. This, in turn, leads on to how we may interpret the evidence that manuscripts and early printed books provide for the ways that medieval and early modern people engaged with reading. This book will be of interest to academics and research students who study the history of reading, popular culture, literacy, manuscript and print culture, as well as to those interested more generally in medieval and early modern society and culture.
English literature --- Books and reading --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History and criticism. --- History --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Prose: Non-Fiction --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- Biography & non-fiction prose --- English. --- early modern England. --- fictional literature. --- literary form. --- literary voice. --- manuscript. --- material evidence. --- moral reading. --- page layout. --- popular reading. --- practical texts. --- printed book. --- reading experience. --- reading practice. --- religious texts.
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