Acknowledgements / vii
Introduction: What is the Philosophy of Literature? / xi
Part 1: Ontology and Categorization
Introduction / 3
What is Fiction?
“The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse,” John R. Searle / 9
“Fiction, Fiction-Making, and Styles of Fictionality,”
Kendall L. Walton / 22
“The Concept of Fiction,” Gregory Currie / 33
The Ontological Status of the Literary Work
“Interpretation and Identity: Can the Work Survive the World?”
Nelson Goodman and Catherine Z. Elgin / 47
“Work and Text,” Gregory Currie / 52
Part 2: The Epistemology of Reading
Introduction / 71
Truth in a Story
“Truth in Fiction,” David Lewis / 83
“The Structure of Stories,” Gregory Currie / 99
“Fictional Truth and Fictional Authors,” David Davies / 107
Interpreting a Literary Work I: Constraints on Right Interpretation
“The Intentional Fallacy,” W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. and M.C. Beardsley / 121
“Validity in Interpretation,” E.D. Hirsch / 136
“Intention and Interpretation,” Jerrold Levinson / 139
“Intentionalism in Aesthetics,” Paisley Livingston / 151
“Semantic Intentions, Utterance Meaning, and Work Meaning,”
David Davies / 167
“The Death of the Author: An Analytical Autopsy,”
Peter Lamarque / 182
Interpreting a Literary Work II: Interpretive Pluralism
“Incompatible Interpretations of Art,” Susan L. Feagin / 197
“True Interpretations,” Stephen Davies / 211
“Art Interpretation,” Robert Stecker / 217
“Literary Rationality,” Carl Matheson / 237
Part 3: Literature, Imagination, and the Emotions
Introduction / 253
Feelings for Fictions
“Fearing Fictions,” Kendall Walton / 259
“Fiction and the Emotions,” Alex Neill / 279
The “Paradoxes” of Tragedy and Horror
“The Pleasures of Tragedy,” Susan L. Feagin / 297
“The Paradox of Horror,” Berys Gaut / 307
Part 4: The Values of Literature
Introduction / 323
Literature and Understanding
“On the Cognitive Triviality of Art,” Jerome Stolnitz / 333
“Fiction and the Growth of Knowledge,” David Novitz / 343
“Literature, Representation, and Knowledge,” James O. Young / 359
The Moral Value of Literature
“‘Finely Aware and Richly Responsible’: Literature and the Moral
Imagination,” Martha C. Nussbaum / 377
“Moderate Moralism,” Noël Carroll / 397
The Accountability of Literature
“Imaginary Gardens and Real Toads: On the Ethics of Basing Fiction
on Real People,” Felicia Ackerman / 413
“Free Speech,” Susan Dwyer / 424
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