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Peter A. French (Editor), Howard Wettstein (Editor)

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September 1, 2003 1405108916 978-1405108911 Volume XXVII
This Volume illuminates the notion of meaning in the arts-in literature, painting, music, and dance. Specific topics include theory in the arts; interpretations of meaning; objectivity in meaning; and the consumer as a participant in art.
  • Brings together articles from prominent philosophers and practitioners of the arts, which illuminate the notion of meaning in the arts.
  • Addresses meaning in literature, painting, music, and dance.
  • Explores the relationship between authorial intentions and the viewer's interpretation of meaning; the possibility (or impossibility) of objective meaning; and the role of the consumer as a participant in the work of art.

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    This collection of articles from prominent philosophers and practitioners of the arts illuminates the notion of meaning in the arts - in literature, painting, music, and dance. Specific topics include the application of theory in literary criticism, music, and dance; explorations of the relationship between authorial intentions and the viewer's interpretation of meaning; the possibility (or impossibility) of objective meaning; and the role of the consumer as a participant in the work of art..

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    This collection of articles from prominent philosophers and practitioners of the arts illuminates the notion of meaning in the arts - in literature, painting, music, and dance. Specific topics include the application of theory in literary criticism, music, and dance; explorations of the relationship between authorial intentions and the viewer's interpretation of meaning; the possibility (or impossibility) of objective meaning; and the role of the consumer as a participant in the work of art.


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    musical feeling experiences, nonstructural features, representational continuity, deception hypothesis, homomorphic representation, ordinary visual experiences, demeaning treatment, dodecaphonic music, claim that films, befitting persons, event pole, octave equivalence, ending images, pitch structure, musical feelings, being demeaned, represented event, tonal music, acoustic stimulus, illocutionary act, aesthetic consciousness, musical meaning
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    New York, Oxford University Press, Midwest Studies, Don Quixote, New Testament, Street Suspension, Bobby Sudduth, Claim of Presentness, Cambridge University Press, Old Testament, Elizabeth Streb, New Critics, Philosophy Goes, World War, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Pierre Menard, Thomas Mann, Travis Doyle, Yale University Press, Alexander Nehamas, Martin Heidegger, New Haven, San Francisco, The Possibility of Criticism, Annie Sprinkle
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