Fiction and Art - Explorations in Contemporary Theory

The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas. This volume offers something entirely new: a selection of multidisciplinary perspectives on fiction written by an international team of contributors at the forefront of their fields, providing a spectrum of approaches to compare and contrast. This volume, divided between historical, cognitive, aesthetic and non-western approaches, targets a wide range of topics, including mathematics, history, religion and metaphysics. This is a seminal volume on one of the most important topics in the humanities.>

About the author

Ananta Ch. Sukla has been Professor and Head of the Department of English at Sambalpur University, India and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Aesthetics, University of Uppsala, Sweden. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics.

Product details

• Authors: Ananta Ch Sukla, Ananta Charana Sukla
• Assisted by: Ananta Ch Sukla (Editor), Ananta Ch. Sukla (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2015
• EAN: 9781472575043
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-7504-3
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Theory of art, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form