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The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics. This volume draws on global, cutting edge research and theory to investigate the historically variable understandings of fictionality, and allows readers to grasp the role of fictions in our understanding of the world.

This interdisciplinary approach provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental themes of:

Questioning how fictions in fact shape, mediate or distort our beliefs about the real world, essays in this volume outline the state of theoretical debates from the perspectives of literary theory, philosophy, sociology, religious studies, history, and the cognitive sciences. It aims to take stock of the real or supposed effects that fiction has on the world, and to offer a wide-reaching reflection on the implications of belief in fictions in the so-called “post-truth” era.

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics. This volume draws on global, cutting edge research and theory to investigate the historically variable understandings of fictionality, and allows readers to grasp the role of fictions in our understanding of the world.

This interdisciplinary approach provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental themes of:

Questioning how fictions in fact shape, mediate or distort our beliefs about the real world, essays in this volume outline the state of theoretical debates from the perspectives of literary theory, philosophy, sociology, religious studies, history, and the cognitive sciences. It aims to take stock of the real or supposed effects that fiction has on the world, and to offer a wide-reaching reflection on the implications of belief in fictions in the so-called “post-truth” era.

Les personnages vivraient paisiblement sur la planète Fiction, s’ils n’étaient menacés de disparition quand les humains les oublient. Comment contourner cette loi d’airain ? Comment ranimer la flamme des lecteurs et des spectateurs ?Sancho Pança, Mme Bovary, Mr Pickwick, Vautrin et quelques personnages de Woody Allen se démènent pour assurer leur survie et celle de leurs concitoyens. Il leur arrive de raisonner sur leur condition et d’agiter quelques grandes questions : la mort et la résurrection de l’auteur, la morale, la concurrence entre les jeux vidéo et la littérature, les limites de l’interprétation, la différence entre fait et fiction…De merveilleuses machines sont inventées pour mesurer le coefficient de fiction des personnages ou leur permettre (peut-être) de communiquer avec la Terre. Dans quel but ? Neutraliser un metteur en scène qui les maltraite, par exemple.