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    A work can be vraisemblable without being an imitation of... — Carmelics
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    A work can be vraisemblable without being an imitation of real-world or historical events.

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    • 1.A work can be vraisemblable and yet exemplify 'the marvelous'.
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    • 2.An opera depicting ancient Greek gods and goddesses can be vraisemblable even though such gods and goddesses are not historical realities.
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    • 1.Vraisemblance requires conformity to audience beliefs about what could plausibly occur in a world governed by consistent causal principles.
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    • 2.Depicting Olympian gods as active agents presupposes a theological worldview that 18th-century audiences did not genuinely hold as possible.
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    • 3.A representation grounded in beliefs the audience treats as purely fictional cannot generate the affective response that vraisemblance is meant to explain.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of mimesis holds that plausibility (to eikos) is established by reference to universal patterns of human action and nature, not fictional conventions.
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    • 2.Du Bos's extension of vraisemblance to 'the marvelous' severs the concept from its Aristotelian grounding in recognizable reality, rendering it explanatorily vacuous.
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    • 3.A concept of plausibility that encompasses any internally consistent fiction loses the normative force needed to distinguish artistically successful from unsuccessful representations.
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    Since artistic imitations are intended to arouse emotions similar to those aroused by the objects imitated, Du Bos values what he calls vraisemblance (verisimilitude). Painters, for example, must “make a painting consistent with what we know of the customs, habits, architecture, and arms of the people that one intends to represent” (1.30). A work can, however, be vraisemblable without being an imitation of the real world and historical events. A work can be vraisemblable and yet be an example of
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