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The Edges of Fiction

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The Edges of Fiction

By Jacques Rancière

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About the book

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. In the modern age, argues Ranci re, this fictional rationality was developed in new ways. The soc...Show more

Literature: history and criticism

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9781509530458

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2019

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The Edges of Fiction

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