Only Imagine - Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination

Only Imagine offers a new theory of fictional content. Kathleen Stock argues for a controversial view known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the content of a particular work of fiction is equivalent to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to imagine.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Extreme intentionalism about fictional content


• 2: Intentionalist strategies of interpretation


• 3: Extreme intentionalism and its rivals


• 4: Fiction, belief, and 'imaginative resistance'


• 5: The nature of fiction


• 6: Back to the imagination


• Conclusion

About the author

Kathleen Stock was educated at Oxford University and did graduate work at St. Andrews and Leeds. After working at Lancaster and U.E.A. she took up the position of Reader at the University of Sussex, where she has been since 2013. Stock works primarily in the philosophy of fiction, art, and imagination, with occasional forays into research on sexual objectification.

Summary

Only Imagine offers a new theory of fictional content. Kathleen Stock argues for a controversial view known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the content of a particular work of fiction is equivalent to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to imagine.

Additional text

For its breadth, systematic argument, and deliberate ground-up reconstruction of its concepts of imagination and truth-in-fiction, Stock's book should be read by anyone concerned with what determines the contents of stories.

Product details

• Authors: Stock , Kathleen Stock, Kathleen (Professor of Philosophy Stock, Stock Kathleen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780198849766
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884976-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory