Once–Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics

Author:   P Kivy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9780470657676


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   18 April 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   P Kivy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9780470657676


ISBN 10:   0470657677
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   18 April 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above. (Choice, 1 December 2011)


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Peter Kivy is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. He is author of The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius (2001), Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (2002), The Performance of Reading (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music (2007), and Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music (2009), and editor of The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics (Blackwell, 2004).

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