In other shoes : music, metaphor, empathy, existence /

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Author / Creator:Walton, Kendall L., 1939- author.
Uniform title:Essays. Selections
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Description:viii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10127436
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ISBN:9780195098716
0195098714
9780195098723
0195098722
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Empathy, imagination and phenomenal concepts
  • Fictionality and imagination : mind the gap
  • Two kinds of physicality in electronic and traditional music
  • Postscripts to 'Two kinds of physicality, in electronic and acoustic music'
  • Thoughtwriting-in poetry and music
  • 'It's only a game' : sports as fiction
  • Restricted quantification, negative existentials, and fiction
  • Existence as metaphor?
  • Postscript to 'Existence as metaphor?'
  • Projectivism, empathy, and musical tension
  • Listening with imagination : is music representational?
  • Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe
  • Understanding humor and understanding music
  • What is abstract about the art of music?
  • The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns
  • Postscripts to 'The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns'
  • Fearing fictions
  • Spelunking, simulation and slime : on being moved by fiction.