… in shifting the emphasis from the view of literature as “discourse about,” to that of literature as mimesis, the question of truth is also changed from the notion of “true about” to that of “true to.” Only a claim can be true about, but a presentation can be true to.

What kind of knowledge, if any, does literary art afford?

Do works of literary art, when functioning successfully as such, have any intimate engagement with what may be called knowledge?