Reading for Opacity and the Cognitive Value of Literary Fiction

Reading for Opacity and the Cognitive Value of Literary Fiction

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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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Main Author:	Arthur Cools
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2019-12-01
Series:	Aesthetic Investigations
Subjects:	Literary fiction cognitive value interest at a distance opacity experience of reading fictional narratives
Online Access:	https://www.aestheticinvestigations.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/170

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