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The Edges of Fiction by Corcoran, Steve; Rancière, Jacques is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ignorance into knowledge. <br> In the modern age, argues Rancière, this fictional rationality was developed in new ways.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Corcoran, Steve; Rancière, Jacques
- Publisher
- Polity Press; Wiley-Interscience; Polity
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781509530458
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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