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Description

  • Aesthetic Attitude and Aesthetic Experience
  • The Ontology of Art: on what kind of a thing is a work of art
  • Theories of Art: Resemblance, Representation, Expression and Form
  • Aesthetic Judgement: Perception and Imagination; The Sublime and the Beautiful
  • Emotional Response to Fiction
  • Criticism and Interpretation: on whethr critical-interpretative cannons are fixed or open-ended
  • Art, Tradition and Modernity
  • Art, Morality and Politics: Art as Ideology
  • Metaphor, Narrative and Fictionality
  • Philosophy and Literature: on Literature as Cognitive Thought-Experiment about Human Possibility