Mimesis as make-believe: on the foundations of the representational arts - SOME MARKINGS.

Walton, Kendall L., 1939-

Verlag: Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993

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PAPERBACK, pencil lines in margins and some pencil underlining mainly in first chapter, remains quite good copy for reading and study. WALTON, KENDALL L. Mimesis as make-believe: on the foundations of the representational arts - SOME MARKINGS. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993, later printing, xiv, 450pp., . CONTENTS: Introduction -- Part 1. Representations -- Section 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 -- Section 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? -- Section 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? -- Section 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 2. Appreciating Representations -- Section 5. Puzzles and Problems -- 1. Rescuing Heroines -- 2. Fearing Fictions -- 3. Fictionality and Other Intentional Properties -- Section 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 -- Section 7. Psychological Participation -- 1. Fearing Fictionally -- 2. ParticipatingPsychologically -- 3. Paradoxes of Tragedy -- 4. Suspense and Surprise -- 5. The Point of Participation -- 6. Appreciation without Participation -- Part 3. Modes and Manners -- Section 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 -- Section 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 4. Semantics and Ontology -- Section 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 -- Section 11. Existence -- 1. Betrayal and Disavowal -- 2. Claims of Existence and Nonexistence. 9780674576032 ISBN 0674576039. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 95099

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Titel: Mimesis as make-believe: on the foundations ...

Verlag: Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993

Einband: Softcover