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Narrative Understanding And Understanding Narrative, Sarah E. Worth
Narrative Understanding And Understanding Narrative, Sarah E. Worth
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this paper I deal with the question of how it is that we have emotional responses to things that we do not believe in the reality of, specifically things like characters and events in literature and film (the paradox of fiction). The direction in which I wish to take this query is not the traditional philosophical approach to this question, however. There has been much written on this particular approach, and because of this I think that it is becoming, in philosophical effect, stuck. What I wish to do in what follows is to approach this question from a …