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1 online resource (xxii, 523 pages) illustrations |
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Routledge literature handbooks |
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Routledge literature handbooks.
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| Contents |
Belief, imagination, and the nature of fiction / Stacie Friend -- The "willing suspension of disbelief' : the long history of a short phrase / Nicholas D. Paige -- The fictionality of garnes and the ludie nature of fiction : make-believe, immersion, play / Marie-Laure Ryan -- Fictional emotions and belief / Eva-Maria Konrad -- Fictional characters and belief / Thomas Pavel -- Fictionality, the zone of generic fiction, and the allure of unreliable narration / James Phelan -- Beliefls a mess. That makes it good for fiction. (A perspective from cognitive literary theory) / Lisa Zunshine -- Fiction and historiography / Annick Louis -- Fiction and scientific knowledge / Adam Toon -- Leaming from fiction / Gregory Currie, Heather Ferguson, Jacopo Frascaroli, Stacie Friend, Kayleigh Green, and Lena Wimmer -- Do fictions impact people's beliefs? A critical View / Edgar Dubourg and Nicolas Baumard -- The impact of fiction on beliefs about gender / Vera Nunning -- Implicit bias, fiction, and belief / Kris Goffin and Agnes Moors -- Children's ideas about stories and about reality / Ayse Payir and Paul L. Harris -- From suspension of disbelief to production of belief : the case of alternate reality games / Patrick Jagoda -- Interactive environments and fictional engagement / Olivier Caira -- Fake news and fictional news / Jessica Pepp, Rachel Sterken, and Eliot Michaelson -- Trust, credulity, and speech / Philippe Roussin -- Literature on credit : fiction and the fiduciary paradigm / Emmanuel Bouju and Loise Leleve -- Fifth-generation fictionality? Fiction, politics, war / Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen -- Uses of fantasy fiction in contemporary political mobilization / Anne Besson -- Fiction, belief, and postcolonial criticism / Alok Yadav -- Can fictions predict the future? / Anne Duprat -- Dystopian fictions and contemporary fears / Jean-Paul Engelibert -- Fiction, belief, and climate change : paratexts, skeptics, and objects of care / Erin James -- Greek mythology : discourse, belief, and ritual action / Claude Calame -- Fiction and belief : approaching medieval Latin Christendom / Julie Orlemanski -- Literary fictions, "fables," and unbelief in the West / Nicolas Correard -- Saints, between faith, belief, and fiction / Barbara Selmeci Castioni -- The role of fiction in Buddhist hagiography : the case of Shinran / Markus Rusch -- Fiction and belief in ancient and early medieval India / Isabelle Ratie -- Fiction, religion, and premodem Arab-Islamic literature (eighth-eighteenth centuries) / Aboubakr Chraibi -- Fiction against belief and belief in fiction in modem and contemporary Arabic literature / Eve de Dampierre-Noiray -- On Jewish fiction and belief : duplicity, parables, confession / Sarah Hammerschlag -- Religious uses of fantasy fiction / Markus Altena Davidsen -- Fake cults, hyper-real religions, virtual beliefs at the crossroads of fiction, the sacred, and technology / Lionel Obadia |
| Summary |
"The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics. This volume draws on global, cutting edge research and theory to investigate the historically variable understandings of fictionality, and allows readers to grasp the role of fictions in our understanding of the world. This interdisciplinary approach provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental themes of: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives on Fiction Fiction, Fact, and Science Social Effects and Uses of Fiction Fiction and Politics Fiction and Religion Questioning how fictions in fact shape, mediate or distort our beliefs about the real world, essays in this volume outline the state of theoretical debates from the perspectives of literary theory, philosophy, sociology, religious studies, history, and the cognitive sciences. It aims to take stock of the real or supposed effects that fiction has on the world, and to offer a wide-reaching reflection on the implications of belief in fictions in the so-called post-truth era"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Alison James is Professor of French at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include the Oulipo group, the contemporary novel, theories and representations of everyday life, documentary literature, and questions of fact and fiction. Akihiro Kubo is Professor of French Literature at Kwansei Gakuin University. His research interests focus on twentieth-century French literature and theories of literature. Françoise Lavocat is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. She received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Chicago, and is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France as well as a member and section chair in the Academia Europaea |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (Talyor & Francis, viewed March 21, 2024) |
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Religion and literature.
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Religion in literature.
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Paranormal fiction -- Themes, motives
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Science fiction -- Religious aspects.
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FICTION / General
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Religión y literatura
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Religión -- En la literatura
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Religion and literature
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Religion in literature
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Science fiction -- Religious aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
James, Alison (Alison Siân), 1976- editor
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Kubo, Akihiro, 1973- editor.
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Lavocat, Françoise, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781003119456 |
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100311945X |
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