The aesthetics of allusion

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 521-532

  Irwin, William ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0141567576     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021961406123     Document Type: Review

References (44)

1. See Gôran Hermerén, "Allusions and Intentions," in Gary Iseminger, ed., Intention and Interpretation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992); also see Stephanie Ross, "Art and Allusion," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (1981); Michael Leddy, "Limits of Allusion," British Journal of Aesthetics 32 (1992); and Carmela Perri, "On Alluding," Poetics 7 (1978).
2. See Gôran Hermerén, "Allusions and Intentions," in Gary Iseminger, ed., Intention and Interpretation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992); also see Stephanie Ross, "Art and Allusion," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (1981); Michael Leddy, "Limits of Allusion," British Journal of Aesthetics 32 (1992); and Carmela Perri, "On Alluding," Poetics 7 (1978).
3. See Gôran Hermerén, "Allusions and Intentions," in Gary Iseminger, ed., Intention and Interpretation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992); also see Stephanie Ross, "Art and Allusion," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (1981); Michael Leddy, "Limits of Allusion," British Journal of Aesthetics 32 (1992); and Carmela Perri, "On Alluding," Poetics 7 (1978).
4. See Gôran Hermerén, "Allusions and Intentions," in Gary Iseminger, ed., Intention and Interpretation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992); also see Stephanie Ross, "Art and Allusion," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (1981); Michael Leddy, "Limits of Allusion," British Journal of Aesthetics 32 (1992); and Carmela Perri, "On Alluding," Poetics 7 (1978).
5. See William Irwin "What Is an Allusion?" Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 59 (2001).
6. See Monroe Beardsley, "In Defense of Aesthetic Value," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical and Association 52 (1979), and "Aesthetic Experience Regained," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (1969); also see Kendall L. Walton, "How Marvelous! Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1993); Matthew Kieran, "Aesthetic Value: Beauty, Ugliness and Incoherence," Philosophy 72 (1997); Joel J. Kuperman, "Aesthetic Value," American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972); Richard M. Gaskin, "Can Aesthetic Value be Explained?" British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1989); and Jerold Levinson, "Pleasure, Aesthetic," in David Cooper, ed., A Companion to Aesthetics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
7. See Monroe Beardsley, "In Defense of Aesthetic Value," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical and Association 52 (1979), and "Aesthetic Experience Regained," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (1969); also see Kendall L. Walton, "How Marvelous! Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1993); Matthew Kieran, "Aesthetic Value: Beauty, Ugliness and Incoherence," Philosophy 72 (1997); Joel J. Kuperman, "Aesthetic Value," American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972); Richard M. Gaskin, "Can Aesthetic Value be Explained?" British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1989); and Jerold Levinson, "Pleasure, Aesthetic," in David Cooper, ed., A Companion to Aesthetics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
8. See Monroe Beardsley, "In Defense of Aesthetic Value," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical and Association 52 (1979), and "Aesthetic Experience Regained," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (1969); also see Kendall L. Walton, "How Marvelous! Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1993); Matthew Kieran, "Aesthetic Value: Beauty, Ugliness and Incoherence," Philosophy 72 (1997); Joel J. Kuperman, "Aesthetic Value," American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972); Richard M. Gaskin, "Can Aesthetic Value be Explained?" British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1989); and Jerold Levinson, "Pleasure, Aesthetic," in David Cooper, ed., A Companion to Aesthetics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
9. See Monroe Beardsley, "In Defense of Aesthetic Value," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical and Association 52 (1979), and "Aesthetic Experience Regained," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (1969); also see Kendall L. Walton, "How Marvelous! Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1993); Matthew Kieran, "Aesthetic Value: Beauty, Ugliness and Incoherence," Philosophy 72 (1997); Joel J. Kuperman, "Aesthetic Value," American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972); Richard M. Gaskin, "Can Aesthetic Value be Explained?" British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1989); and Jerold Levinson, "Pleasure, Aesthetic," in David Cooper, ed., A Companion to Aesthetics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
10. See Monroe Beardsley, "In Defense of Aesthetic Value," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical and Association 52 (1979), and "Aesthetic Experience Regained," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (1969); also see Kendall L. Walton, "How Marvelous! Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1993); Matthew Kieran, "Aesthetic Value: Beauty, Ugliness and Incoherence," Philosophy 72 (1997); Joel J. Kuperman, "Aesthetic Value," American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972); Richard M. Gaskin, "Can Aesthetic Value be Explained?" British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1989); and Jerold Levinson, "Pleasure, Aesthetic," in David Cooper, ed., A Companion to Aesthetics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
11. See Monroe Beardsley, "In Defense of Aesthetic Value," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical and Association 52 (1979), and "Aesthetic Experience Regained," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (1969); also see Kendall L. Walton, "How Marvelous! Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1993); Matthew Kieran, "Aesthetic Value: Beauty, Ugliness and Incoherence," Philosophy 72 (1997); Joel J. Kuperman, "Aesthetic Value," American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972); Richard M. Gaskin, "Can Aesthetic Value be Explained?" British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1989); and Jerold Levinson, "Pleasure, Aesthetic," in David Cooper, ed., A Companion to Aesthetics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
12. See Monroe Beardsley, "In Defense of Aesthetic Value," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical and Association 52 (1979), and "Aesthetic Experience Regained," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (1969); also see Kendall L. Walton, "How Marvelous! Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1993); Matthew Kieran, "Aesthetic Value: Beauty, Ugliness and Incoherence," Philosophy 72 (1997); Joel J. Kuperman, "Aesthetic Value," American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972); Richard M. Gaskin, "Can Aesthetic Value be Explained?" British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1989); and Jerold Levinson, "Pleasure, Aesthetic," in David Cooper, ed., A Companion to Aesthetics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
13. See Chauncey Wood, "Artistic Intention and Chaucer's Use of Scriptural Allusion," in David Lyle Jeffrey, ed., Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), p. 36.
14. See Ted Cohen, "Metaphor and the Cultivation of Intimacy," Critical Inquiry 5 (1978), pp. 3-12; also see Jokes, Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), p. 29; and "Jokes," in Eva Schaper, ed., Pleasure, Preference and Value: Studies in Philosophical Aesthetics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 124-129.
15. See Ted Cohen, "Metaphor and the Cultivation of Intimacy," Critical Inquiry 5 (1978), pp. 3-12; also see Jokes, Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), p. 29; and "Jokes," in Eva Schaper, ed., Pleasure, Preference and Value: Studies in Philosophical Aesthetics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 124-129.
16. See Ted Cohen, "Metaphor and the Cultivation of Intimacy," Critical Inquiry 5 (1978), pp. 3-12; also see Jokes, Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), p. 29; and "Jokes," in Eva Schaper, ed., Pleasure, Preference and Value: Studies in Philosophical Aesthetics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 124-129.
17. Cohen, op. cit., p. 8.
18. A. Walton Litz, "The Allusive Poet: Eliot and his Sources," The Yale Review 78 (1989), p. 256.
19. See Max Black, Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1962), p. 34.
20. Perri, op. cit., p. 302; see also E. E. Kellett, Literary Quotation and Allusion (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1933), p. 17.
21. Perri, op. cit., p. 302; see also E. E. Kellett, Literary Quotation and Allusion (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1933), p. 17.
22. Perri, op. cit., p. 301.
23. Susan Stewart, "The Pickpocket: A Study in Tradition and Allusion," MLN 95 (1980), p. 1128.
24. See William Irwin, Intentionalist Interpretation: A Philosophical Explanation and Defense (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999), p. 117.
25. Stewart, op. cit., p. 1129.
26. Ted Cohen, "High and Low Art, and High and Low Audiences," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1999) p. 140.
27. Stewart, op. cit., p. 1147.
28. E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987).
29. Hirsch, op. cit., p. 9, and Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, IV. iii. 246-252.
30. Hirsch, op. cit., p. 9, and Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, IV. iii. 246-252.
31. See Göran Hermerén, Influence in Art and Literature (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975).
32. Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973).
33. Ibid., p. 30.
34. Ibid., p. 94.
35. See Alan Nadel, "Translating the Past: Literary Allusions as Covert Criticism," The Georgia Review 36 (1982), pp. 639-640.
36. David Bromwich, "Parody, Pastiche, and Allusion," in Chavia Hosek and Patricia Parker, eds., Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 328.
37. Ibid., p. 330.
38. Perri, op. cit., p. 302.
39. See Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (New York: Continuum, 1994), pp. 100-110.
40. Kellett, op. cit., p. 26.
41. Ibid., p. 28.
42. Ibid., p. 37.
43. Ibid., p. 21.
44. I am grateful to King's College for the summer research grant that made this work possible. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at a meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association and at a national meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics. I wish to thank my commentators Rick Fairbanks, particularly for his reference to The Name of the Rose, and Deborah Knights as well as probing audience members, in particular Noël Carroll, Gary Iseminger, and Robert Stecker. In addition I wish to thank Gregory Bassham, Derrick Boucher, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Peter Lamarque, and Megan Lloyd for insightful comments and criticisms.