TY  - BOOK
AU  - Landy,Joshua
TI  - How to do things with fictions
SN  - 9780199949458 (ebook) :
AV  - PN3335 .L26 2012
U1  - 808.3 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Books and reading
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Why did Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why do we root for criminal heroes? In mummy movies, why is the sceptic always the first to go? Witty and approachable, this book challenges the assumption that literary texts must be informative or morally improving to be of any real benefit
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188561.001.0001
ER  -