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Literary Fiction : the Ways We Read Narrative Literature / by Farner, Geir

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 What is Literary Fiction? -- Chapter 3 The Fictional Communication Process -- Chapter 4 The Cognitive and the Aesthetic Dimension -- Chapter 5 The Delimitation of the Literary Work -- Chapter 6 Intention and Message -- Chapter 7 Problems Related to the Sender -- Chapter 8 The Structure of the Action -- Chapter 9 Selection -- Chapter 10 Voice -- Chapter 11 Viewpoint, Focalization -- Chapter 12 Frequency -- Chapter 13 Order -- Chapter 14 Suspense -- Chapter 15 The Functions of Literary Fiction -- Chapter 16 Evaluation -- Chapter 17 Conclusion.…”
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Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics. by Salaita, Steven, 1975-

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Autobiographies of others : historical subjects and literary fiction / by Boldrini, Lucia

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Beyond the story : American literary fiction and the limits of materialism / by Lake, Christina Bieber

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Gothic to multicultural : idioms of imagining in American literary fiction / by Lee, A. Robert, 1941-

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Literary construction of identity in the ancient world : proceedings of a conference, Literary Fiction and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Literatures : Options and Limits of Modern Literary Approaches in the Exegesis of Ancient Texts, Heidelberg, July 10-13, 2006 /

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Little Stones by Kuiper, Elizabeth

“…Literary Fiction…”
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Saul, Benjamin and the emergence of monarchy in Israel : biblical and archaeological perspectives

Table of Contents: “…The Israelite tribal system : literary fiction or social reality? /…”
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How to Make Believe.

Table of Contents: “…The Place for External Considerations in Reading Literary Fiction /…”
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Dynamics and policies of prejudice from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…Reflection of social prejudice in Georgian literary fiction /…”
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Literature and understanding : the value of a close reading of literary texts by Phelan, J. W.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Literary fiction as a subgenre of both literature and fiction -- Fiction -- Literature -- Literary fiction -- 2 Literary cognitivism, anti-cognitivism and non-cognitivism -- Literary cognitivism -- Literary anti-cognitivism -- Literary non-cognitivism -- The literariness of literary cognitivism -- 3 Understanding others from understanding literary fiction -- Understanding human thought and action -- Five senses of 'understanding' -- Close analysis and interpretation -- The charge of elitism -- The charge of subjectivity -- 4 The cognitive gain from reading literary fiction as literature -- Irony -- Particularity and precision -- Particularity -- Precision -- Metaphor -- Perspective -- Ambiguity -- Repetition -- Aesthetic effectiveness -- Close analysis and intellectual virtue -- 5 How understanding literary fiction relates to the world beyond literary fiction -- The standard account of checking literary fiction against the world -- Concession to the standard account -- Objections to the standard account -- My thesis as an alternative model -- Truth-tracking vs truth-trailing relations -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix: The affliction -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The afterlife of Austria-Hungary : the image of the Habsburg Monarchy in interwar Europe by Kożuchowski, Adam, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Austria-Hungary in historiography -- Austria-Hungary in essayism and political theory -- Austria-Hungary in literary fiction -- The empire epitomized: Franz Joseph -- Conclusion.…”
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The Sense of an Ending : Studies in the Theory of Fiction. by Kermode, Frank

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; I: The End; II: Fictions; III: World Without End or Beginning; IV: The Modern Apocalypse; V: Literary Fiction and Reality; VI: Solitary Confinement; EPILOGUE: The Sense of an Ending, 1999; NOTES.…”
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Poverty in contemporary literature : themes and figurations on the British book market by Korte, Barbara, 1957-, Zipp, Georg

Table of Contents: “…Popular Genre Fiction -- 5. Literary Fiction -- 6. Fiction for Children and Young Adults -- 7. …”
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After the Celebration by Ken Gelder/Salzman, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Recolonising: Historical Fiction and the History Wars; 3. Literary Fiction; 4. Genre Fiction; 5. Is There a Women's Chapter?…”
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The privacy of the psychical by Gilead, Amihud

Table of Contents: “…-- Psychical accessibility and literary fiction -- Appendix I: language, intersubjectivity, and privacy -- Appendix II: Darwin's predicta moth as a pure, 'A Priori' accessible possibility.…”
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Resources for Teaching English. by Ceranic, Helena

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; What the book contains; How to use this book; Key; Section 1 Reading and writing non-fiction texts; Unit 1: Autobiographical writing; Unit 2: Travel writing; Unit 3: Writing for different audiences and purposes; Section 2 Addressing literary fiction; Unit 4: Introducing Dickens; Unit 5: Exploring poetry; Unit 6: Engaging with Shakespeare.…”
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Metafiction : the theory and practice of self-conscious fiction by Waugh, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…The ontological status of literary-fictional discourse; 5 Fictionality and context: from role-playing to language games; Notes; Bibliography; Further reading; Index…”
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Philosophy of pessimism by Sim, Stuart

Table of Contents: “…A World Without Meaning: Pessimism in Literary Fiction -- 6. Visions of Despair: Pessimism in the Arts -- 7. …”
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A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis? : a Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Work of Freud and Lacan by Haute, Philippe van, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…A clinical anthropology of hysteria : hysteria as a philosophical problem -- Between trauma and disposition : the specific aetiology of hysteria in Freud's early works -- Dora : symptom, trauma and phantasy in Freud's analysis of Dora -- From day-dream to novel : on hysterical phantasy and literary fiction -- The indifference of a healthy lesbian : bisexuality versus the Oedipus complex -- Lacan's structuralist rereading of Dora -- Lacan and the homosexual young woman : between pathology and poetry? …”
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A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis? : a Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Work of Freud and Lacan by Haute, Philippe van, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…A clinical anthropology of hysteria : hysteria as a philosophical problem -- Between trauma and disposition : the specific aetiology of hysteria in Freud's early works -- Dora : symptom, trauma and phantasy in Freud's analysis of Dora -- From day-dream to novel : on hysterical phantasy and literary fiction -- The indifference of a healthy lesbian : bisexuality versus the Oedipus complex -- Lacan's structuralist rereading of Dora -- Lacan and the homosexual young woman : between pathology and poetry? …”
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The cognitive value of philosophical fiction by Mikkonen, Jukka

Table of Contents: “…FC; Half title; Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The perennial debate; Literature and fiction; Philosophy and literature; Cognition, knowledge and truth; Propositional theory of literary truth; 1 Fictive Use of Language; Fiction as negative discourse; Fiction and imagination; Literary fiction-making; 2 Literature and Truth; Assertions; Suggestions; Literature and argumentation; Contemplation and hypotheses; 3 Meaning and Interpretation; Authors and communication; Intentions, intentionalisms and interpretations.…”
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Communicating science : professional, popular, literary by Russell, Nicholas J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Science in British literary fiction -- Science on stage : the politics and ethics of science in cultural and educational contexts.…”
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Savage Exchange Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination. by Chin, Tamara T.

Table of Contents: “…Abstraction: Qingzhong Economics, Literary Fiction, and Masters Dialogue -- 2. Quantification: Poetic Expenditure in the Epideictic Fu -- 3. …”
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The Readers'' Advisory Guide to Genre Blends. by McArdle, Megan M., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9: READERS' ADVISORY FOR BLENDSAPPENDIXES; APPENDIX A: Literary Fiction Blends; APPENDIX B: Genre Blending MVPs; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Communicating science : professional, popular, literary by Russell, Nicholas J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : What this book is about and why you might want to read it -- Prologue : Three orphans share a common paternity : Professional science communication, popular journalism and literary fiction are not as separate as they seem -- Part I. …”
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Imagination, philosophy, and the arts

Table of Contents: “…Reasons, emotions, and fictions / Berys Gaut -- How I really feel about JFK / Stacie Friend -- Narrative, emotion, and perspective / Peter Goldie -- In search of a narrative / Matthew Kieran -- Fictional assent and the (so-called) "puzzle of imaginative resistance" / Derek Matravers -- The tower of Goldbach and other impossible tales / Kathleen Stock -- On the relation between pretense and belief / Tamar Szabó Gendler -- Literary fiction and the philosophical value of detail / Eileen John -- Fiction and value / Roman Bonzon -- Imagining the truth : an account of tragic pleasure / James Shelley --Seeing twice over / Christopher Williams -- Out of sight, out of mind / Dominic McIver Lopes -- The imaged, the imagined, and the imaginary / David Davies -- Film and the transcendental imagination : Kant and Hitchcock's The lady vanishes / Melissa Zinkin -- The funerary sadness of Mahler's music / Saam Trivedi -- Sculpture and space / Robert Hopkins -- The capacities that enable us to produce and consume art / Gregory Currie.…”
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Literary genres. / Allegory

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Contemporary German Fiction : Writing in the Berlin Republic. by Taberner, Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Note on texts and terminology; Chapter 1 Introduction: literary fiction in the Berlin Republic; Chapter 2 Literary debates and the literary market since unification; Chapter 3 Berlin as the literary capital of German unification; Chapter 4 'GDR literature' in the Berlin Republic; Chapter 5 'West German writing' in the Berlin Republic; Chapter 6 Literary reflections on '68; Chapter 7 Pop literature in the Berlin Republic; Chapter 8 Representations of the Nazi past I: perpetrators.…”
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Geographia Literaria by Basu, Jagannath

Table of Contents: “…Ankita Sharma: The Memory of Here and Elsewhere: Geopoetics and Literary Fiction…”
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Possible worlds in humanities, arts, and sciences : proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65

Table of Contents: “…Report on Session 2: Linguistics; Session 3: Literature and Arts; Possible Worlds and Literary Fictions; Discussion of Lubomír Doležel's paper "Possible Worlds and Literary Fictions"; Fictional Worlds and the Economy of the Imaginary; Duality and Deviance: Two Semantic Modes. …”
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Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011 by Marx, John

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Theorizing narrativity

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The spoils : stories by Pycior, Casey

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The experientiality of narrative : an enactivist approach by Caracciolo, Marco

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Reading sideways : the queer politics of art in modern American fiction by Seitler, Dana

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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. by Jacobs, Alan, 1958-

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Islamic literature in contemporary Turkey : from epic to novel by Çayır, Kenan

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Sour heart : stories by Zhang, Jenny

Presented discourse in popular science : professional voices in books for lay audiences by Pilkington, Olga A.

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