Fiction and Art

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.<br/> <br/> 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.