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Güvenilmez anlatıcılar ve kuşkuculuk: Kurgudan ne öğrenebiliriz

2021
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Advisor: Doç. Dr. Sandrıne Berges

Abstract (EN)

This thesis investigates whether we can learn from fiction. First, I analyse accounts of how we understand fiction and of the concepts that need to be analysed. Then I look more specifically at accounts that suggest we can learn from works of fiction. I argue that these accounts are unsatisfying and focus instead on a literary device, unreliable narration, from which I argue we can derive a better account of how we learn from fiction. I offer an analysis of a literary device called unreliable narration. Afterwards I suggest that this literary technique can provide a different way of learning from fiction. Finally, I argue that what my analysis of unreliable narration suggests is that through this device, fiction can help us learn and practice scepticism as an epistemic virtue.

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Dr. Fatma Zehra Vural

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Fatma Zehra Vural (Master Thesis). Güvenilmez anlatıcılar ve kuşkuculuk: Kurgudan ne öğrenebiliriz, 2021, Bilkent University.

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