Knowledge through Fiction: Characters as Social Metaphors in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

While it is common to relate to fictional characters, there is a common view that this is all that fiction can provide us with and that we cannot learn from fiction. There are arguments to support this claim, such as the no-evidence argument and the fiction-distortion argument. They claim that due t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaca Vink, Sebastian
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen 2021
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-189626