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Fictionality by Petroski, Karen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fictionality about?
Does fiction enhance reality or threaten our sense of what is real? What, if anything, is special about experiencing fictional works and worlds? Today we speak casually of parallel universes and virtual reality; how much do we really know about what these phenomena involve? In Fictionality, Karen Petroski explains how philosophers and literary theorists have approached these questions in the Western literary tradition from Greek antiquity to the present day. The book introduces readers to both l
Who reads Fictionality?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Petroski, Karen
- Publisher
- Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780367752316
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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