tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post516125986897545113..comments2024-03-19T02:14:31.704-04:00Comments on <center>OnFiction</center>: Research Bulletin: Learning Errors from FictionKeith Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-62860819631890024742013-12-04T10:01:12.802-05:002013-12-04T10:01:12.802-05:00Hi Armstrong,
This is a really great point! Keith ...Hi Armstrong,<br />This is a really great point! Keith has written about this idea of different kinds of truth (e.g., correspondence versus coherence) and how narrative fiction can reveal psychological truths about humanity without being undermined by lack of correspondence to reality. This seems especially so when the failures in correspondence seem to be more about trivial factoids as opposed to larger human truths. There is an article in The Atlantic on 12 Years a Slave, brought to my attention by fellow OnFiction editor Valentine Cadieux, that touches on all these issues as well. <br />Thanks for the comment!<br />Raymond.Raymond A. Marhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521492403638340957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-8400870922355377792013-11-26T11:13:59.584-05:002013-11-26T11:13:59.584-05:00Like all art, fiction is an intensification of soc...Like all art, fiction is an intensification of socalled reality and thus is a higher truth employing vision (not mundane, secular sight) and craft. The artist chooses details that contribute to the overall impression and the one action that gives the story unity. Any correspondence to the "real" world that the writer uses is done because it advances the action of the story and the readers' understanding of what the story is about, its enveloping action. Just as we make a mistake if we think the narrator is the author (which may be the case) we err in considering any correspondence to the physical everyday world. The divorce of the imagined world is part and parcel of the divorce of the author from the narrator. Only immature minds would think that a story is anything but true to itself.F. Armstrong Greennoreply@blogger.com