Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

Alison James is Professor of French at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include the Oulipo group, the contemporary novel, theories and representations of everyday life, documentary literature, and questions of fact and fiction.Akihiro Kubo is Professor of French Literature at Kwansei Gakuin University. His research interests focus on twentieth-century French literature and theories of literature.Françoise Lavocat is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. She received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Chicago, and is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France as well as a member and section chair in the Academia Europaea.

• Introduction Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, and Françoise LavocatPart I: Believing in Fiction: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives 1 Belief, Imagination, and the Nature of Fiction Stacie Friend2 The “Willing Suspension of Disbelief”: The Long History of a Short Phrase Nicholas D. Paige3 The Fictionality of Games and the Ludic Nature of Fiction: Make-Believe, Immersion, Play Marie-Laure Ryan4 Fictional Emotions and Belief Eva-Maria Konrad5 Fictional Characters and Belief Thomas Pavel6 Fictionality, the Zone of Generic Fiction, and the Allure of Unreliable Narration James Phelan7 Belief Is a Mess. That Makes It Good for Fiction. (A Perspective from Cognitive Literary Theory) Lisa Zunshine8 Fiction and Historiography Annick Louis9 Fiction and Scientific Knowledge Adam Toon10 Learning from Fiction Gregory Currie, Heather Ferguson, Jacopo Frascaroli, Stacie Friend, Kayleigh Green, and Lena WimmerPart II: From Fiction to Belief: Social and Political Effects 11 Do Fictions Impact People’s Beliefs? A Critical ViewEdgar Dubourg and Nicolas Baumard12 The Impact of Fiction on Beliefs about Gender Vera Nünning13 Implicit Bias, Fiction, and Belief Kris Goffin and Agnes Moors14 Children’s Ideas about Stories and about Reality Ayse Payir and Paul L. Harris15 From Suspension of Disbelief to Production of Belief: The Case of Alternate Reality GamesPatrick Jagoda16 Interactive Environments and Fictional Engagement Olivier Caïra17 Fake News and Fictional News Jessica Pepp, Rachel Sterken, and Eliot Michaelson18 Trust, Credulity, and Speech Philippe Roussin19 Literature on Credit: Fiction and the Fiduciary Paradigm Emmanuel Bouju and Loïse Lelevé20 Fifth-Generation Fictionality? Fiction, Politics, War Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen21 Uses of Fantasy Fiction in Contemporary Political Mobilization Anne Besson22 Fiction, Belief, and Postcolonial Criticism Alok Yadav23 Can Fictions Predict the Future? Anne Duprat24 Dystopian Fictions and Contemporary Fears Jean-Paul Engélibert25 Fiction, Belief, and Climate Change: Paratexts, Skeptics, and Objects of Care Erin JamesPart III: Fiction and Religious Belief 33726 Greek Mythology: Discourse, Belief, and Ritual Action Claude Calame27 Fiction and Belief: Approaching Medieval Latin ChristendomJulie Orlemanski28 Literary Fictions, “Fables,” and Unbelief in the WestNicolas Correard29 Saints, Between Faith, Belief, and FictionBarbara Selmeci Castioni30 The Role of Fiction in Buddhist Hagiography: The Case of ShinranMarkus Rüsch31 Fiction and Belief in Ancient and Early Medieval IndiaIsabelle Ratié32 Fiction, Religion, and Premodern Arab-Islamic Literature (Eighth–Eighteenth Centuries)Aboubakr Chraïbi33 Fiction against Belief and Belief in Fiction in Modern and Contemporary Arabic LiteratureÈve de Dampierre-Noiray34 On Jewish Fiction and Belief: Duplicity, Parables, ConfessionSarah Hammerschlag35 Religious Uses of Fantasy FictionMarkus Altena Davidsen36 Fake Cults, Hyper-Real Religions, Virtual Beliefs at the Crossroads of Fiction, the Sacred, and TechnologyLionel Obadia