Truth, Fiction, and Literature: A Philosophical Perspective.

Introduction: setting the scene. Part 1 Fiction and truth: the practice of storytelling truth-value and pretence content and characters reference and about aspects, points of view and objectivity relating internal/external and subjective/objective. Part 2 The limits of fictionality: metaphysics and fictions truth-making and world-making narrative and imagination. Part 3 Literature and truth: literary practice literature and fiction the theory of novelistic truth the propositional theory of literary truth metaphorical truth literature as philosophy the mimetic aspect of literature fiction, literature and value.