Definition of Fiction: State of the Art

British Journal of Aesthetics 62 (2):241-255 (2022)
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In his 2014 book Fiction and Narrative, Derek Matravers mounts a concerted attack on what he terms the ‘post-Walton consensus’ as to the features that distingui.

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