Apt imaginings : feelings for fictions and other creatures of the mind / Jonathan Gilmore.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Gilmore, Jonathan, author.

Series:

• Thinking art.
• Oxford scholarship online.
• Thinking art
• Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Emotions.
• Fiction--Psychological aspects.
• Fantasy--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Feelings for fictions and other creatures of the mind

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

'Apt Imaginings' addresses the question of how our emotions and desires for the contents of fictions, fantasies, and other products of the imagination relate to the feelings we have about things in the real world. A contribution to the theory of the emotions, the philosophy of fiction, and the psychology of art, this text argues that the normative criteria that determine the fit, morality, or rationality of our feelings for what we believe are distinct from those criteria that apply to what we imagine.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Cognitive imagining and literary fictions
• Evaluative emotions
• Apt emotions and normative continuity
• Defending discontinuity
• Epistemology of fiction and rational imagining
• Tragedy and desire
• Discrepant affects
• Artistic functions.

Notes:

• Also issued in print: 2020.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2020).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0-19-009637-3
• 0-19-009635-7