Reading for Opacity and the Cognitive Value of Literary Fiction

This article addresses the question of the cognitive value of literary fiction starting from Peter Lamarque’s opacity thesis. My intention is to articulate the cognitive value of literary fiction in accordance with the opacity thesis avoiding the pitfall of formalism to which the opacity thesis risk...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arthur Cools
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2019-12-01
Series:Aesthetic Investigations
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Online Access:https://www.aestheticinvestigations.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/170