2019/04/01 by Iskra Fileva
Social Sciences · #Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
paper · doi:10.2307/48570835
openalex publication_date 2019/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract I ask whether and when historical inaccuracy in a work of art constitutes an aesthetic flaw. I first consider a few replies derived from others: conceptual impossibility, import-export inconsistency, failure of reference, and imaginative resistance. I argue that while there is a grain of truth to some of these proposals, none of them ultimately succeeds. I proceed to offer an alternative account on which the aesthetic demerits of historical inaccuracies stem from a violation of the conversational contract between author and audience. The key question is what that contract implies.