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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131049803321

Autore

Kivy Peter

Titolo

Once-told tales : an essay in literary aesthetics / / Peter Kivy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

ISBN

1-283-40865-1

9786613408655

1-4443-9764-8

1-4443-9766-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

New directions in aesthetics ; ; 11

Classificazione

PHI001000

Disciplina

801.93

801/.93

Soggetti

Literature - Aesthetics

Aesthetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics; Contents; Preface; 1. What It's All About; 2. The Aesthetics of Literature: A Neglected Topic; 3. The Aesthetic Property: Its Kinds and Its Kind; 4. The Ethical, the Aesthetic, and the Artistic; 5. Structure Aesthetics and Novelistic Structure; 6. Continuous Time and Interrupted Time; 7. Seeing is Believing; 8. Reading is Believing; 9. Twice-Told Tales and More; Appendix: Paraphrasing Poetry; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines the role of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrative structure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a story rather than a scholarly exercise. Focuses on the experience of the art form known as the novelUses the more common perspective of a reader who reads to be told a story, rather than for scholarly or critical analysisDraws comparisons with experience of the other arts, music in particularExplores the different effects of a range of narrative approaches