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Abbott, H. Porter. “Narrative and Emergent Behavior.” 
Anderson, R. Lanier. “Nietzsche on Truth, Illusion, and Redemption.”
Beardsley, Monroe. “The Metaphorical Twist.”
Black, Max. “Metaphor.”
Booth, Wayne. “Why Banning Ethical Criticism is a Serious Mistake.” 
Carroll, Noel. “The Wheel of Virtue: Art, Literature, and Moral Knowledge.” 
Camp, Elisabeth. “Wordsworth’s Prelude, Poetic Autobiography, and Narrative Constructions of the Self.” 
Cavell, Stanley. “The Uncanniness of the Ordinary.” 
Cohen, Ted. “Identifying with Metaphor: Metaphors of Personal Identification.” 
Currie, Gregory. “The Moral Psychology of Fiction.” 
Dabashi, Pardis. “Cultures of Argument.”
Danto, Arthur C. “Philosophy as/and/of Literature.” 
Davidson, Donald. “What Metaphors Mean.” 
Diamond, Cora. “Having a Rough Story about What Moral Philosophy Is.”
Feagin, Susan. “Some Pleasures of Imagination.” 
Fisher, Philip. “Looking Around to See Who I Am: Dreiser’s Territory of the Self.” 
Frankfurt, Harry. “On Bullshit.”
Friend, Stacie. “Fiction as a Genre.” 
Gaut, Berys. “Interpreting the Arts: The Patchwork Theory.” 
Gendler, Tamar Szabo. “The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance.” 
Goodman, Nelson. “Metaphor as Moonlighting.” 
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. “Form without Matter vs. Form as Event.” 
Harrison, Robert Pogue. “Hic Jacet.” 
Hills, David. “Aptness and Truth in Verbal Metaphor.” 
Jacobson, Daniel. “In Praise of Immoral Art.”
John, Eileen. “Reading Fiction and Conceptual Knowledge: Philosophical Thought in Literary Context.” 
Lamarque, Peter. “How can we fear and pity fictions?” 
Landy, Joshua. “Zinger, Clunker, Clanger, Flunker: On Two-Point Comparisons, and Why we Love them.”
Levinson, Jerrold. “Titles.”
Livingston, Paisley. “From Work to Work.” 
Menand, Louis. “T. S. Eliot and Modernity.” 
Moran, Richard. “The Expression of Feeling in Imagination.”
Mullin, Amy. “Moral Defects, Aesthetic Defects, and the Imagination.” 
Nehamas, Alexander. “An Essay on Beauty and Judgment.” 
Nussbaum, Martha. “Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical Criticism.” 
Olsen, Stein Haugom. “The Canon and Artistic Failure.” 
O’Neill, Onora. “The Power of Example.” 
Pavel, Thomas G. “‘Possible Worlds’ in Literary Semantics.” 
Pippin, Robert. “Author’s Précis of Henry James and Modern Moral Life.”
Posner, Richard A. “Against Ethical Criticism.”
Radford, Colin. “Fiction, Pity, Fear, and Jealousy.”
Reginster, Bernard. “Perspectivism, Criticism and Freedom of Spirit.” 
Robinson, Jenefer. “Style and Personality in the Literary Work.”
Rorty, Richard. “Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises.”
Shusterman, Richard. “The End of Aesthetic Experience.” 
Stolnitz, Jerome. “On the Origins of ‘Aesthetic Disinterestedness.’”
Strawson, Galen. “Against Narrativity.” 
Tamen, Miguel. “My Taste.”
Thomasson, Amie. “Fictional Characters and Literary Practices.”
Velleman, J. David. “Well-Being and Time.”
Walton, Kendall. “Fearing Fictions.”
Williams, Bernard. “Moral Luck.”
Wollheim, Richard. “Flawed Crystals: James’s The Golden Bowl and the Plausibility of Literature as Moral Philosophy.”
Zhang, Dora. “Notes on Atmosphere.”