On the Body of Literary Persuasion

• Authors: Mikkonen Jukka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, the author argues that literary works have distinct cognitive significance in changing their readers' beliefs. In particular, he discusses 'philosophical fictions' and truthclaims that they may imply. Basing himself broadly on Aristotle's view of the enthymeme, he argues that a work of literary fiction persuades readers of its truths by its dramatic structure, by illustrating or implying the suppressed conclusion (or other parts missing in the argument). Further, he suggests that it is exactly this 'literary persuasion' which distinguishes literary works from merely didactic works prone to overt 'argumentation' and instruction

Keywords

EN

ARISTOTLE; ENTHYMEME; FICTION; LITERARY FICTION; LITERATURE; TRUTH IN FICTION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 51-70
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mikkonen Jukka

• Jukka Mikkonen, Department of Philosophy, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland'; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/5864/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA082523