The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics

In this paper, my aim is to show that in Anglo-American analytic aesthetics, the conception of narrative fiction is in general realistic and that it derives from philosophical theories of fiction-making, the act of producing works of literary narrative fiction. I shall firstly broadly show the origi...

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Main Author: Jukka Mikkonen
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Tartu 2009-03-01
Series:Studia Philosophica Estonica
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Online Access:http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs/index.php/spe/article/download/54/32
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spelling doaj-8df4a6974d95434092590b106ed6124d2020-11-24T20:41:32ZdeuUniversity of TartuStudia Philosophica Estonica1406-00001736-58992009-03-012.1118The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic AestheticsJukka MikkonenIn this paper, my aim is to show that in Anglo-American analytic aesthetics, the conception of narrative fiction is in general realistic and that it derives from philosophical theories of fiction-making, the act of producing works of literary narrative fiction. I shall firstly broadly show the origins of the problem and illustrate how the so-called realistic fallacy – the view which maintains that fictions consist of propositions which represent the fictional world “as it is” – is committed through the history of philosophical approaches to literature in the analytic tradition. Secondly, I shall show how the fallacy that derives from the 20th Century philosophy of language manifests itself in contemporary analytic aesthetics, using Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen’s influential and well-known Gricean make-believe theory of fiction as an example. Finally, I shall sketch how the prevailing Gricean make-believe theories should be modified in order to reach the literary-fictive use of language and to cover fictions broader than Doyle’s stories and works alike.http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs/index.php/spe/article/download/54/32analytic aestheticsfiction
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The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics
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title The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics
title_short The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics
title_full The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics
title_fullStr The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics
title_full_unstemmed The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics
title_sort realistic fallacy, or: the conception of literary narrative fiction in analytic aesthetics
publisher University of Tartu
series Studia Philosophica Estonica
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1736-5899
publishDate 2009-03-01
description In this paper, my aim is to show that in Anglo-American analytic aesthetics, the conception of narrative fiction is in general realistic and that it derives from philosophical theories of fiction-making, the act of producing works of literary narrative fiction. I shall firstly broadly show the origins of the problem and illustrate how the so-called realistic fallacy – the view which maintains that fictions consist of propositions which represent the fictional world “as it is” – is committed through the history of philosophical approaches to literature in the analytic tradition. Secondly, I shall show how the fallacy that derives from the 20th Century philosophy of language manifests itself in contemporary analytic aesthetics, using Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen’s influential and well-known Gricean make-believe theory of fiction as an example. Finally, I shall sketch how the prevailing Gricean make-believe theories should be modified in order to reach the literary-fictive use of language and to cover fictions broader than Doyle’s stories and works alike.
topic analytic aesthetics
fiction
url http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs/index.php/spe/article/download/54/32
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