"Peter Kivy, world-renowned philosopher of art, completed work on this book shortly before his untimely death in 2017. In it he addresses the novel, making an invaluable contribution to the field of philosophy of literature and raising questions of a philosophical nature about the novel that will be of interest both to the professional philosopher and to the general reader"--.

• Contents
• Editor’s Foreword
• Preface
• 1 The Actual, the Possible, and the Probable
• 2 Criticism, Communication, Conversation, Craft
• 3 Facts from Fictions
• 4 Knowledge and Novel Knowledge
• 5 Swept Up in the Story
• 6 Tell Me a Story!
• 7 The Dancer and the Dance
• 8 Joking Morality
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors