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Mimesis as Make-Believe
Harvard University Press, 1990 Cloth: 978-0-674-57619-3 | Paper: 978-0-674-57603-2 Library of Congress Classification BH301.R47W35 1990 Dewey Decimal Classification 111.85
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Mimesis as Make-Believe
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by Kendall L. Walton
Harvard University Press, 1990
Cloth: 978-0-674-57619-3
Paper: 978-0-674-57603-2
Cloth: 978-0-674-57619-3
Paper: 978-0-674-57603-2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One
- Representations
- 1.
- Representation and Make-Believe
- 1.
- Imagining
- 2.
- Prompters
- 3.
- Objects of Imaginings
- 4.
- Imagining about Oneself
- 5.
- Props and Fictional Truths
- 6.
- Fictionality without Props: Dreams and Daydreams
- 7.
- Representations
- 8.
- Nonfigurative Art
- 9.
- Fictional Worlds
- 10.
- The Magic of Make-Believe
- 2.
- Fiction and Nonfiction
- 1.
- Nonfiction
- 2.
- Fiction versus Reality
- 3.
- Linguistic Strategies
- 4.
- Fiction and Assertion
- 5.
- Pretended and Represented Illocutionary Actions
- 6.
- Fiction Making as an Illocutionary Action?
- 7.
- Mixtures, Intermediates, Ambiguity, Indeterminacy
- 8.
- Legends and Myths
- 9.
- A Note on Truth and Reality
- 10.
- Two Kinds of Symbols?
- 3.
- Objects of Representation
- 1.
- What Objects Are
- 2.
- Representation and Matching
- 3.
- Determinants
- 4.
- Representing and Referring
- 5.
- Uses of Objects
- 6.
- Reflexive Representation
- 7.
- The Inessentiality of Objects
- 8.
- Nonactual Objects?
- 4.
- The Mechanics of Generation
- 1.
- Principles of Generation
- 2.
- Direct and Indirect Generation
- 3.
- Principles of Implication
- 4.
- The Mechanics of Direct Generation
- 5.
- Silly Questions
- 6.
- Consequences
- Part Two
- Appreciating Representations
- 5.
- Puzzles and Problems
- 1.
- Rescuing Heroines
- 2.
- Fearing Fictions
- 3.
- Fictionality and Other Intentional Properties
- 6.
- Participation
- 1.
- Participation in Children's Games
- 2.
- Appreciators as Participants
- 3.
- Verbal Participation
- 4.
- Restrictions on Participation
- 5.
- Asides to the Audience
- 6.
- Seeing the Unseen
- 7.
- Psychological Participation
- 1.
- Fearing Fictionally
- 2.
- Participating Psychologically
- 3.
- Paradoxes of Tragedy
- 4.
- Suspense and Surprise
- 5.
- The Point of Participation
- 6.
- Appreciation without Participation
- Part Three
- Modes and Manners
- 8.
- Depictive Representation
- 1.
- Depiction Defined
- 2.
- Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things
- 3.
- Styles of Depiction
- 4.
- Realism
- 5.
- Cross-Modal Depiction
- 6.
- Musical Depictions
- 7.
- Points of View (in Depictions)
- 8.
- Conclusion
- 9.
- Verbal Representations
- 1.
- Verbal Depiction
- 2.
- Narration
- 3.
- Two Kinds of Reliability
- 4.
- Nonverbal Narration
- 5.
- Absent and Effaced Narrators
- 6.
- Storytelling Narrators
- 7.
- Mediation
- 8.
- Points of View in Narrated Representations
- Part Four
- Semantics and Ontology
- 10.
- Doing without Fictitious Entities
- 1.
- The Problem
- 2.
- Speaking within and about Fictional Worlds
- 3.
- Ordinary Statements
- 4.
- Unofficial Games
- 5.
- Variations
- 6.
- Logical Form
- 11.
- Existence
- 1.
- Betrayal and Disavowal
- 2.
- Claims of Existence and Nonexistence
- Works Cited
- Index
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