{"id":418,"date":"2016-03-29T07:25:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T07:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=418"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:47:04","slug":"derek-matravers-interviewed-in-asage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Derek Matravers interviewed in ASAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/dcm4\" >Derek Matravers<\/a>\u00a0answers questions about his book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/fiction-and-narrative-9780199647019?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;#\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/global.oup.com');\">Fiction\u00a0and Narrative<\/a>, put to him by\u00a0Michel-Antoine Xhignesse for\u00a0ASAGE, an online journal in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.\u00a0The opener:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;For those of our readers who may not have had a chance to read\u00a0your book yet, could you explain its main thrust?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/asage.org\/index.php\/ASAGE\/issue\/current\/showToc\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/asage.org');\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read his answer, and to find out why he is so appalled by <em>Wind in the Willows<\/em> (&#8220;Give one iota of thought to it, and it\u00a0just falls to bits. It starts looking utterly horrific: animals talking to each other one moment, and then\u00a0sticking each other between slices of bread and eating one another the next&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Matravers\u00a0answers questions about his book,\u00a0Fiction\u00a0and Narrative, put to him by\u00a0Michel-Antoine Xhignesse for\u00a0ASAGE, an online journal in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.\u00a0The opener: &#8220;For those of our readers who may not have had a chance to read\u00a0your book yet, could you explain its main thrust?&#8221; Go here\u00a0to read his answer, and to find out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}