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Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory
01 Jan 1991-
TL;DR: The authors reconcile humanism and deconstruction the defence of wit - Sterne, Locke, and the particular Forster and Moore deconstructing Derrida Muriel Spark and Jane Austen the text as interrogator.
Abstract: How to reconcile humanism and deconstruction the defence of wit - Sterne, Locke, and the particular Forster and Moore deconstructing Derrida Muriel Spark and Jane Austen the text as interrogator - Muriel Spark and Job rhetoric and the self parable and transcendence secrets and surfaces the truth about metaphor.
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TL;DR: The authors present debats actuels sur la critique ethique de l'art, inauguree par Platon and negligee par les philosophes analytiques du XX e siecle.
Abstract: Presentation des debats actuels sur la critique ethique de l'art, inauguree par Platon et negligee par les philosophes analytiques du XX e siecle. Examinant les principaux arguments autonomistes, cognitifs et anticonsequentialistes opposes au criticisme ethique, ainsi que les principales reponses qui leur ont ete apportees, l'A. montre que leur problematique centrale concerne la relation entre le domaine moral et le domaine esthetique, d'une part, et la possibilite de l'evaluation de l'un par l'autre, d'autre part.
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...Variations on the subversion approach include Putnam (1978); Wilson (1983); Beardsmore (1984); Harrison (1991); Passmore (1991); Eldridge (1992)....
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TL;DR: This article argued that poetry takes the highest place in literature and that poetry is not compatible with prose, and that it is that which turns prose into poetry, which is the teacher who will spread the truth the widest.
Abstract: By the common consent of all mankind who have read, poetry takes the highest place in literature. That nobility of expression, and all but divine grace of words, which she is bound to attain before she can make her footing good, is not compatible with prose. Indeed, it is that which turns prose into poetry. When that has been in truth achieved, the reader knows that the writer has soared above the earth, and can teach his lessons somewhat as a god might teach. He who sits down to write his tale in prose makes no such attempt, nor does he dream that the poet's honour is within his reach;-but his teaching is of the same nature, and his lessons all tend to the same end. By either, false sentiment may be fostered; false honour, false love, false worship may be created; by either vice instead of virtue may be taught. But by each, equally, may true honour, true love, true worship, and true humanity be inculcated; and that will be the greatest teacher who will spread the truth the widest.
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10 Jun 2014TL;DR: In this paper, a study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction is presented, which explores how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers.
Abstract: How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young audience, from picturebooks to young adult novels, the combination of cognitive criticism and children’s literature theory also offers significant insights for literary studies beyond the scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in cognitive criticism, the book provides convincing evidence that reading fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual, emotional and social maturation.
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01 Jan 2003TL;DR: The situation and tasks of the philosophy of art are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the following: representation, imitation, and resemblance, originality, imagination, and originality and imagination.
Abstract: Preface 1. The situation and tasks of the philosophy of art 2. Representation, imitation, and resemblance 3. Beauty and form 4. Expression 5. Originality and imagination 6. Understanding art 7. Identifying and evaluating art 8. Art and emotion 9. Art and morality 10. Art and society: some contemporary practices of art 11. Epilogue: the evidence of things not seen.
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TL;DR: In this article, an understanding of the imagination is developed that allows us to see how political work and political explorations may be used to form the artistic imagination, and to understand the relationship between art and politics.
Abstract: Activist and political art works, particularly feminist ones,
are frequently either dismissed for their illegitimate combination
of the aesthetic and the political, or embraced as chiefly political
works. Flawed conceptions of politics and the imagination are responsible
for that dismissal. An understanding of the imagination is developed
that allows us to see how political work and political explorations may
inform the artistic imagination.
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