Oxford Scholarship Online 2017
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198805403.003.0003
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Signposts of Factuality: On Genuine Assertions in Fictional Literature

Abstract: This chapter argues for compositionalism, which is the view that a fictional text can consist of both fictional and factual discourse. One reason to think compositionalism is true is that it explains why authors go to great lengths, and commit to high levels of superfluous detail, to achieve accuracy in their works. This chapter argues for compositionalism within a framework of an institution of fictionality. The conventions of this institution are detailed and provide the basis on which we can identify factua… Show more

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“…A few philosophers believe that authors can 'pause' and 'restart' the fiction at their will, to make serious and asserted remarks, so that fictional works are often 'a patchwork of fictionmaking and assertion' (Currie 1990, 48;cf. Searle 1975, 332;Konrad 2017). On this 'Patchwork View' of fiction, an utterance can be either fictional or asserted (unless it is aimed at different audiences, cf.…”
Section: The Nonassertion View and Some Of Its Versionsmentioning
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“…A few philosophers believe that authors can 'pause' and 'restart' the fiction at their will, to make serious and asserted remarks, so that fictional works are often 'a patchwork of fictionmaking and assertion' (Currie 1990, 48;cf. Searle 1975, 332;Konrad 2017). On this 'Patchwork View' of fiction, an utterance can be either fictional or asserted (unless it is aimed at different audiences, cf.…”
Section: The Nonassertion View and Some Of Its Versionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…13 I owe some of these examples to Sophie Grace Chappell. The first two examples are analysed in Konrad (2017).…”
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“…is not yet well formalised in literary theory, we annotated three phenomena which we consider to be strong indicators for reflective passages: comment (Bonheim, 1975), non-fictional speech (Konrad, 2017) and generalisation (Leslie and Lerner, 2016). Annotators had to identify these and attribute them to one or more of the three attribution classes (character/ narrator/author).…”
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