Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind

by Jonathan Gilmore

How do our engagements with fictions and other products of the imagination compare to our experiences of the real world? Are the feelings we have about a novel's characters modelled on our thoughts about actual people? If it is wrong to feel pleasure over certain situations in real life, can it nonetheless be right to take pleasure in analogous scenarios represented in a fantasy or film? Should the desires we have for what goes on in a make-believe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190096349
• ISBN13: 9780190096342
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"