Once-told tales : an essay in literary aesthetics /

"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...

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Main Author: Kivy, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:New directions in aesthetics ; 11.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.