Literature in the Mirror of Her Sister Arts

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Philosophers on the Imagination: from Plato to Hegel 7
6. Romantic Themes and Later Developments 31
7. Imaginative Reporting: The Minimal Conditions of a Story 57
8. Fictional Discourse and the Theory of Speech Acts 81
9. Fictional Objects 105
10. Realism in Fiction 125
11. Symbolism and realism 149
12. Metaphor, Truth and Poetry 171
13. Literature in the Mirror of Her Sister Arts 207
14. On the Value of Literature in Relation to Science 237
15. Epilogue 259
16. Bibliography 265
17. Index 285