If M.me Bovary does not exist, what is the semantic value of “Emma Bovary committed suicide by eating a handful of arsenic”? If we think it’s a false sentence, then how could we distinguish it from other sentences, surely false, as “Madame Bovary committed suicide by falling under a train”? And what is the relation between the novel Madame Bovary and its many interpretations? Finally, what can we learn (acknowledging we can learn something) from literature? Here are some classical questions analytic philosophy of literature tries to answer, starting from the most thorny one, i.e. the one concerning what we mean by “literature”.

Madame Bovary si è veramente suicidata? Le sfide della letteratura, le risposte della filosofia

BARBERO, CAROLA
2013-01-01

Abstract

If M.me Bovary does not exist, what is the semantic value of “Emma Bovary committed suicide by eating a handful of arsenic”? If we think it’s a false sentence, then how could we distinguish it from other sentences, surely false, as “Madame Bovary committed suicide by falling under a train”? And what is the relation between the novel Madame Bovary and its many interpretations? Finally, what can we learn (acknowledging we can learn something) from literature? Here are some classical questions analytic philosophy of literature tries to answer, starting from the most thorny one, i.e. the one concerning what we mean by “literature”.
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Fictional Entities, Semantic Value, Interpretation, Metaphysics, Ontology.
Carola Barbero
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