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Fiction, Recognition and Resonance

Pavel T*
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ISSN: 2641-9130  10.23880/phij-16000S1-004  Received: December 11, 2019  Published: December 27, 2019
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Keywords
Mimesis Transport Empathy Familiarity
Abstract

Using Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the main example, the article argues that the public of literary plays and narratives vicariously participate in their fictional worlds, recognize the actions and passions they present and resonate to their ethical echoes. Therefore, literary works do not convey knowledge in the strict sense but rather offer an empathic, unreliable familiarity with the human world, its customs and its ideals.

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  title   = {Fiction, Recognition and Resonance},
  author  = {Pavel T},
  journal = {Philosophy International Journal},
  year    = {2019},
  volume  = {2},
  number  = {Special Issue 1: Art and Knowledge},
  doi     = {10.23880/phij-16000S1-004}
}
Pavel T (2019). Fiction, Recognition and Resonance. Philosophy International Journal, 2(Special Issue 1: Art and Knowledge). https://doi.org/10.23880/phij-16000S1-004
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