Mimesis as Make-Believe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis as Make-Believe write by Kendall L. Walton. This book was released on 1993-10-15. Mimesis as Make-Believe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Representations—in visual arts and in fiction—play an important part in our lives and culture. Kendall Walton presents here a theory of the nature of representation, which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Drawing analogies to children’s make believe activities, Walton constructs a theory that addresses a broad range of issues: the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, how depiction differs from description, the notion of points of view in the arts, and what it means for one work to be more “realistic” than another. He explores the relation between appreciation and criticism, the character of emotional reactions to literary and visual representations, and what it means to be caught up emotionally in imaginary events. Walton’s theory also provides solutions to the thorny philosophical problems of the existence—or ontological standing—of fictitious beings, and the meaning of statements referring to them. And it leads to striking insights concerning imagination, dreams, nonliteral uses of language, and the status of legends and myths. Throughout Walton applies his theoretical perspective to particular cases; his analysis is illustrated by a rich array of examples drawn from literature, painting, sculpture, theater, and film. Mimesis as Make-Believe is important reading for everyone interested in the workings of representational art.
Child's Play
Child's Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child's Play write by Laurence Goldman. This book was released on 1998. Child's Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthropological account of make-believe behaviour of Huli (Papua New Guinea) children demonstrates how our shared knowledge about make-believe routines, about role playing, and about the kinds of social information these representations incorporate allow children to invoke their own experiences of the world and reinvent them as types of virtual reality.
Fiction and Narrative
Fiction and Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiction and Narrative write by Derek Matravers. This book was released on 2014-04. Fiction and Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.
A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics write by Pierre Destrée. This book was released on 2015-07-20. A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society
Imaginary Games
Imaginary Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imaginary Games write by Chris Bateman. This book was released on 2011. Imaginary Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can games be art or is all art a kind of game? A philosophical investigation of play and imaginary things.
