Much Ado About Nonexistence - Fiction and Reference

Informationen zum Autor A. P. Martinich is Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor in Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin and the author of more than a dozen books. He is the editor of Philosophy of Language and is on the board of directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. Avrum Stroll is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on topics including philosophy of language and analytic philosophy. Klappentext Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference, and its relation to truth. Zusammenfassung Fiction! Reference! and Nonexistence contains a new! contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll! two of America's leading philosophers! explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference! and its relation to truth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Part I: Fiction and Reference Chapter 2 A Theory of Fiction Chapter 3 Pretense and Fiction Chapter 4 History and Fiction Part 5 Part II: Reference and Non-Existence Chapter 6 Fiction and Reference Again Chapter 7 Direct Reference Theories and Natural Kinds

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• Authors: A. P. Martinich, A. P./ Stroll Martinich, Al P. Stroll Martinich, Aloysius Martinich, Avrum Stroll, Stroll Avrum
• Assisted by: Hatem Rushdy (Editor), Rushdy Hatem (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2007
• EAN: 9780742548336
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4833-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form