Once-told tales : an essay in literary aesthetics /

• Main Author: Kivy, Peter
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Subjects: Literature > Aesthestics.; Electronic books.

"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 novel. Uses...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• What It's All About
• The Aesthetics of Literature
• The Aesthetic Property
• The Ethical, the Aesthetic, and the Artistic
• Structure Aesthetics and Novelistic Structure
• Continuous Time and Interrupted Time
• Seeing is Believing
• Reading is Believing
• Twice-Told Tales and More
• Appendix: Paraphrasing Poetry
• References
• Index.
• Machine generated contents note: Preface
• What it's All About
• The Aesthetics of Literature: A Neglected Topic
• The Aesthetic Property: Its Kinds and Its Kind
• The Ethical, the Aesthetic, and the Artistic
• Structure Aesthetics and Novelistic Structure
• Continuous Time and Interrupted Time
• Seeing is Believing
• Reading is Believing
• Twice-Told Tales and More.