The critical imagination
By: James Grant
Edition: First edition.
Series: Oxford philosophical monographs; Oxford philosophical monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780199661794; 9780191637940
Subjects: Kunstkritik; Fantasi; Metaphor; Konstkritik; Imagination; Metaforer; Art criticism; Metapher
Description: The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginitiveness, and criticism of the arts ... The first half explains the role imaginitiveness plays in criticism. To do this, Grant answers three questions that are of interest in their own right. First, what are the aims of criticism? Is the point of criticizing a work to evaluate it, to explain it, to modify our response to it, or something else? Second, what is it to appreciate art? Third, what is imaginativeness? He gives new answers to all three questions, and uses them to explain the role of imaginitiveness in criticism. The book's second half focuses on metaphor. Why are some metaphors so effective? How do we understand metaphors? Are some thoughts expressible only in metaphor? Grant's answers to these questions go against much current thinking in the philosophy of language. He goes on to use these answers to explain why imaginitive metaphors are so common in art criticism. The result is a rigorous and original theoy of metaphor, criticism, imaginativeness, and their interrelations. -- Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and index.

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Table of contents: title: The aims of criticism; title: Criticism and appreciation; title: Criticism and imagination; title: Metaphor and likeness; title: The dispensability of metaphor; title: Metaphor and criticism.