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An exploration of the ways fiction mimics the real and the links between cyber realities, fiction, and human beings. It also explores the foundations of mimeticism in order to explain the important effect fiction has on human beings.

Table of Contents

Introduction 000

Chapter 1. Who Is Afraid of Imitation? 000

Chapter 2. Mimesis: To Imitate, to Feign, to Represent, and to Know 000

Chapter 3. Fiction 000

Chapter 4. Some Fictional Devices 000

Conclusion 000

Notes 000

Bibliography 000

Index 000

Why Fiction

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      Publisher: MQ - University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780803217584, 978-0803217584
      ISBN10: 0803217587

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An exploration of the ways fiction mimics the real and the links between cyber realities, fiction, and human beings. It also explores the foundations of mimeticism in order to explain the important effect fiction has on human beings.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction 000

      Chapter 1. Who Is Afraid of Imitation? 000

      Chapter 2. Mimesis: To Imitate, to Feign, to Represent, and to Know 000

      Chapter 3. Fiction 000

      Chapter 4. Some Fictional Devices 000

      Conclusion 000

      Notes 000

      Bibliography 000

      Index 000

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