The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
Transcript of The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
The Journal of the Sydney Society of
Literature and Aesthetics
VOLUME 20 NUMBER 2 DECEMBER 2010
THE SYDNEY SOCIETY OF LITERATURE & AESTHETICS
(Affiliated with the Australian and New Zealand
Association for Literature and Aesthetics – ANZALA)
The Society is established to promote the study of all the arts. It encourages such study from philosophical, psychological, sociological, scientific, historical, critical and educational standpoints. Its membership is open to those interested from all states in Australia as well as overseas. HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr Catherine A. Runcie PRESIDENT: Dr Christopher Hartney VICE PRESIDENT: Associate Professor Will Christie VICE PRESIDENT (JOURNAL): Dr Alex Norman SECRETARY/TREASURER: Vacant ANZALA EXECUTIVES: Dr Christopher Hartney & Dr Alex Norman Membership: $55 (AUD) per annum/ $35 (AUD) for unwaged/students. Annual membership confers the following benefits:
Two issues of the journal Free admission to SSLA seminars Automatic membership in the Australian and New Zealand Association
for Literature and Aesthetics Regular announcements for the society’s activities
Individual copies of the journal: $25.00 (AUD)
Applications for membership contact [email protected]
The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
EDITORS
Dr Christopher Hartney Dr Alex Norman
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Dr Alex Norman EDITORIAL BOARD
Professor Paul Redding • Associate Professor Rick Benitez • Associate Professor Ahmad Shboul • Emeritus Professor Paul Crittenden • Associate Professor Will Christie • Dr Louise Marshall • Associate Professor Mabel Lee • Associate Professor Carole M. Cusack • Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis • Dr Catherine A. Runcie • Emeritus Professor Garry Trompf • Dr Danielle Celermajer • Dr Elisabeth Rechniewski • Dr Nijmeh Hajjar
VOLUME 20 NUMBER 2 DECEMBER 2010
Table of Contents Obituary: Remembering Denis Dutton (1944-2010) Wilfried Van Damme 7 Fantasia on a Nexus: Robert Graves, Igor Stravinsky, and Thomas Pynchon’s V. Sarah Penicka-Smith 11 Window Shopping with Kant and Marcel Duchamp Patrick Hutchings 25 Angelina Weld Grimké and Racialised Texts Jane Duran 44 Beyond the Intentional Fallacy Rachael Fernflores 56 The Lens of Emotion: Wollheim’s Two Conceptions of Emotional Colouring Damien Freeman 74
Presence and Absence: The Paintings of Andrew Musgrave N. N. Trakakis 92 Philosophical Method as a Technique of Art Cato Wittusen 106 A Solitary Boat in the Autumn Chill: Chinese Ci-Poetry and Literati Painting Wang Ping 123 The Dramatic Nature of Our Selves: David Hume and the Theatre Metaphor Alessandra Stradella 154 On Popular Epicureanism: Relationships of Theme and Style in Harold and Maude and Bad Boy Bubby Christopher Hartney 168 Vincent van Gogh and Barack Obama in a Poem by Derek Walcott Thijs Weststeijn 180 Book Reviews Nigel Warburton, The Art Question (London; New York: Routledge, 2003). Reviewed by David Macarthur 193
Erratum Notice Due to a typographical mistake the spine of Literature & Aesthetics vol. 20, no. 1 is mislabelled ‘Volume 19 Number 2.’ The editors apologise to readers for this error and have taken steps to ensure it will not happen again.
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