This guidebook is dedicated to the key features of literary fiction. It is unique in both its concept and structure. All theoretical literary problems are treated from the viewpoint of philosophical aesthetics to be further translated into the issues of the philosophy of literature. The author emphasizes the anthropological nature of literary studies and sheds a new light on a number of cornerstone problems of literary theory: cohesiveness, artistry, imagery and multilevelness of a literary work; the problems of the literature types, genres and styles are analyzed with the use of an unconventional approach. The guidebook discusses important issues that have not been properly addressed by literary studies: the matters of psychologism in lite...