It is widely accepted that readers will resist imagining a character in story did something morally wrong, even if the endorses this judgement. This paper argues, first, not question of whether act was wrong salient as they read; and, second, asking certain can be part correctly appreciating story—even foreground story, and itself discourages from it, common some forms ‘hermeneutics suspicion’....

‘‘Between Thing and Theory’’ takes up perennial problems of critical thought and interpretation, particularly as they pertain to the relation between history and aesthetic judgment. The inconclusiveness of aesthetic judgment is perhaps its primary attraction, challenge, and vexation. Aesthetic works are the products of deliberate human imaginative effort and thus reflect the traces of other con...

The present paper is a literary stylistic study that illustrates in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm the imagery, allegorical meaning, linguistic exploitation or manipulation of words. One most traditional features and an integral part its imagery Orwell 's sophisticated sensitivity to political abuse language Inwardly, this allegory relates power struggle, usurpation, coercion, manipulation, ...

Abstract I explore the view that metaphysics is essentially imaginative. argue central goal of on this understanding, not truth. Metaphysics- as-essentially-imaginative provides novel answers to challenges both value and epistemic status metaphysics.

Imaginative pleasure through daydreaming has been theorized to be important in understanding the experience of desire and as a factor escalating consumption. However, there is risk this underplays range potentially immersive intense experiences daydreaming, prior independent purchase or use marketplace commodities. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant diaries projective techniques, study...

Abstract This paper describes patterns of number use in spoken and written English the main factors that contribute to these patterns. We analysed more than 1.7 million occurrences numbers between 0 a billion British National Corpus, including conversational speech, presentational speech (e.g., lectures, interviews), imaginative writing fiction), informative academic books). find four affect fr...