Introduction Patrik Engisch and Julia Langkau
I. Imagination and the Definition of Fiction
1 Projecting Fiction Richard Woodward
2 Fiction, Imagination, and Narrative Patrik Engisch
3 Fiction and the Actual World Derek Matravers
4 The Creative Side of Recreative Imagination Margherita Arcangeli
II. Imagination and Engagement with Fiction
5 Fictional Narrators and Normative Fiction-Making Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
6 The Experience of Fiction Eileen John
7 Literary Fiction and Imagination Magdalena Balcerak Jackson and Julia Langkau
8 The Gift of the Lyric Anna Ribeiro
9 Keeping it Simple: Fiction, Imagination, and the Emotions Fiora Salis
III. Imagination and the Cognitive Role of Fiction
10 More than Make-Believe: On the Uses of Imagination in Experiencing Fictional
Artworks Maria Jose Alcaraz Leon
11 Empathy, Sensibility, and the Novelist's Imagination Olivia Bailey
12 Conspiracy Theories as Walt-Fiction Anna Ichino
13 Fiction and the Cultivation of Imagination Amy Kind