After I read Chapter II “ What is Literature and Does It Matter ?” by Jonathan Culler. In my opinion, the most interesting part is “Literature as fiction”. This part tells the story that literary works project a fictional world, and this fictional world may be very different from the real world experience sometimes. As a carrier of thinking, literary works have gone beyond words as the way of narration. It seems to me that literature does not have a specific description or record of the real world like an instruction book or a newspaper. There is a space in the “fiction” of literature, just as authors build a world with their thoughts, when readers read, they will enter the “fiction” space of literature. At this time, the author and the reader are in contact, and each reader has a different experience, so the readers’ cognition of this “fictional” world is also different. Even though the same literary works have more possibilities among different readers.
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I agree with you, literature of fiction is a place where we can all connect as humans to put ourselves in other persons shoes and i think we can benefit more that way to understand other people .
I agree with you. Fiction literature gives us the chance to interpret events according to our imaginations and not all readers has the same imagine which makes the readers and writers in touch although they are different.
I agree with you, fiction literature gives everyone the freedom to go deeper and truly understand one another.
I agree with you and I said something similar which was Fiction helps us get a better imagination of the text. It also helps us get a better understanding of the character.