The Object of Literary Criticism

accomodate adequate aestheticians aims argued Aristotelian Society aspects Beardsley C.L. Stevenson clearly concept of literature constitutive properties copies and performances copy or performance criteria critical practice criticism's deductive defining definition Doctor Faustus elements essentially complex essentially contested Essentially Contested Concept evaluative argument evaluative judgments evaluative statements exist F. R. Leavis function G.E. Moore Goodman Gray's Elegy Hamlet Ibid inductive interpretation and evaluation interpretative logic interpretative statements Journal of Aesthetics judgments of authenticity language Leavis literary art literary criticism literary work's identity London Margolis meaning megatype Moreover notion object ontological complexity ontological status oral performance Osborne Oxford particular literary perceptualist performativist performing arts perhaps philosophers philosophers of art plurality poem poetry position prescriptivism prescriptivist problem question reader reasons regard relevant repr role scientific seems silent reading standard Stevenson suggest surely syntactic T.S. Eliot Urmson vague variant verbal entity Weitz Wittgenstein Wollheim work-identity