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The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory, and offers an analysis of the way the concept contributes to our understanding of fictionality and the structure and ontology of fictional worlds. Dr Ronen suggests a new set of criteria for the definition of fictionality, making rigorous distinctions between fictional and possible worlds; and through specific studies of domains within fictional worlds - events, objects, time, and point of view - she proposes a radical rethinking of the problem of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular.

Theory of knowledge --- Literature --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Dialectiek (Logica) --- Dialectique (Logique) --- Logic --- Logica --- Logique --- Mogelijkheid --- Mogelijkheid in de literatuur --- Possibility --- Possibility in literature --- Possibilité --- Possibilité dans la littérature --- Realiteit in de literatuur --- Reality in literature --- Réalité dans la littérature --- Werkelijkheid in de literatuur --- 82.0 --- Fiction --- -Possibility in literature --- -Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Science --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Literatuurtheorie --- Technique --- History and criticism --- -Theory, etc --- Methodology --- Logic. --- Possibility in literature. --- Possibility. --- Reality in literature. --- Theory, etc. --- Technique. --- -Literatuurtheorie --- 82.0 Literatuurtheorie --- -Argumentation --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Arts and Humanities

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Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy's denial of art's morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics through negativity.

Art and morals. --- Ethics and art --- Morals and art --- Ethics

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This study offers a new perspective on the object represented by art, specifically by art that succeeds to create in its receiver a sense of "the real", a sense of approximating the true nature of the represented object that lies outside the artwork. The object that cannot be accessed through a concept, a meaning or a sign, the thing-in-itself, is generally rejected by philosophy as being outside the realm of its concerns. This rejection is surveyed in a number of philosophical discussions, from Kant to Hilary Putnam. Turning to the psychoanalytic object, an object inexhaustible in terms of its external existence, or in terms of its conceptual status or meaning (the object is always suppressed, partly known, inaccessible), another notion of the object. The Real is suggested as what can neither be contained in language nor reduced to a linguistic referent. This solution does not lead away from philosophical interests but rather exposes this dilemma about the object of representation as fundamentally philosophical. Cases of artistic realism discussed range from perspective painting to abstract art, from tragedies to the literary representation of minds.

Art --- Perception --- Psychoanalytic Theory --- Realism in art --- Realism in literature --- Reality in art --- Representation (Psychoanalysis)

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