03127nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-031-52712-8 DE-He213 20251030111804.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240403s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031527128 978-3-031-52712-8 10.1007/978-3-031-52712-8 doi PN1-6790 D bicssc LIT000000 bisacsh D thema Howard-Snyder, Frances. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 74704 Cause and Effect in Fiction [electronic resource] / by Frances Howard-Snyder. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 103 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Cause and Effect in Fiction: An Introduction -- 2. Causation and Causation in Fiction -- 3. Cause and Effect in Plot -- 4. Cause and Effect in Character -- 5. Cause and Effect in Setting -- 6. Cause and Effect in Dialogue -- 7. Cause and Effect in Theme -- 8. Cause and Effect, Counterfactuals, and the Role of Fiction in our Psychic Lives -- 9. Objections and Replies. This book explores and defends George Saunders’ causal thesis that successful stories are those that establish causation well. The book includes an in-depth discussion of causation’s role in several different key craft elements of fiction writing and examines different theories of causation and their implications for causation in fiction. Other discussions include the role of causation in building suspense, character and causation, causation in dialogue and connections between fiction and counterfactuals (or hypotheticals). The book also considers a number of objections to the causal thesis and offers a reply. Frances Howard-Snyder is a Philosophy Professor at Western Washington University and has co-authored a logic textbook. She has also published numerous articles on ethics and philosophy of religion. She has an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and has published stories in The Magnolia Review, Silver Pen, Halfway Down the Stairs, as well as other publications. For more information, see franceshowardsnyder.com. Literature. 65108 Philosophy. 66189 Creative writing. Literature. 65108 Philosophy. 66189 Creative Writing. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031527111 Printed edition: 9783031527135 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52712-8 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 58933 58933