Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Walton on Fiction -- 3.Fiction and the Imagination -- 4.The Real Distinction -- 5.Understanding Narratives -- 6.Engaging with Narratives -- 7.Narrative and Belief -- 8.The (so-called) `Paradox of Fiction' -- 9.Narrators, Impossible Fictions, and the `Fictionality Puzzle' -- 10.Coda: Film.
Summary:
Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.