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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/reference-in-fiction/
SUMMARY:Reference in Fiction
DESCRIPTION:No one would deny that works of nonfiction refer to real indivi
 duals andevents. If I read a biography of Napoleon\, I take the work to re
 fer toNapoleon. But many literary scholars and philosophers have claimed t
 hatreference either fails or is at best irrelevant in fiction\, so that ev
 enwhen fictions are about the real world this &quot\;aboutness&quot\; is m
 erely indirect.From this perspective\, my imaginings in response to War an
 d Peace cannotrepresent the real Napoleon\, or at least not in the same wa
 y as thebiography. I argue to the contrary that works of fiction often ref
 er to realindividuals in the same way as nonfiction. I develop an account 
 of referencein stories and argue that reference matters to the appreciatio
 n of fiction.
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB
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