Interpreting art, interpreting literature

Orbis Litterarum

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-36

  Swirski, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 61049161541     PISSN: 01057510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0730.2001.d01-31.x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. In An Ontology of Art Currie actually proposes two hypotheses: the ATH (in Chapter 3) and the IMH (in Chapter 4). The two are, however, quite disjoint and the adherence to the first does not strictly entail the second, and vice versa. The IMH which can be derived from the ATH under the assumption that the actions in question are not uniquely performable (for context, see Levinson, "What a Musical Work Is" 215), is not the thesis that Currie defends, but its weaker version. Since the IMH is largely a response to, and a critique of, Wollheim's dualist Position and Goodman's allo-autographic distinction, I will not deal with it here
2. For example, on pages 11, 19, 51, 59
3. See Currie's "Music, Art and Metaphysics" (473) for a succinct refutation of modal objections to the inclusion of the artist's identity in Levinson' theory
4. In any case, Currie's Twin Earth-based objections do not have the desired upshot, allowing Levinson to dispose of them in his review of Currie's ATH ("An Ontology" 221-22)
5. See the author's discussion in "An Ontology of Art (219) and "What a Musical Work Is" (21-22)
6. For background, see Westfall, and I. B. Cohen
7. See also Stephen Davies's Definition of Literature, as well as Paul Hernadi's What is Literature
8. Although Levinson discusses such a possibility briefly in a footnote to "An Ontology" (220), he never includes it in a formal theory
9. Livingston discusses the proposed shift under name of the Intentional Heuristic in "What's the Story" (106-109)
10. In "Genres in Action: the Pragmatics of Literary Interpretation" (Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literay Studies, 1997) and "Literary Studies and Literary Pragmatics: The Case of 'The Purloined Letter"