An exploration of the ways fiction mimics the real and the links between cyber realities, fiction, and human beings. It also explores the foundations of mimeticism in order to explain the important effect fiction has on human beings.
Jean-Marie Schaeffer is the director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and is the author of several books in French. Dorrit Cohn, professor emerita of German and comparative literature at Harvard University, is the author of several books, including The Distinction of Fiction, and is the translator of G¿rd Genette¿s Essays in Aesthetics (Nebraska 2005).
