How To Do Things With Fictions

Why did Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why do we root for criminal heroes? In mummy movies, why is the skeptic always the first to go? Witty and approachable, this book challenges the assumption that literary texts must be informative or morally improving to be of any real benefit.

• | Author: Joshua Landy
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0199378207
• | ISBN-13: 9780199378203