Once-Told Tales

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Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines therole of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrativestructure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a storyrather than a scholarly exercise. * Focuses on the experience of the art form known as thenovel * Uses the more common perspective of a reader who reads tobe told a story, rather than for scholarly or criticalanalysis * Draws comparisons with experience of the other arts, music inparticular * Explores the different effects of a range of narrativeapproaches

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Peter Kivy

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Aesthetics Ästhetik Literature Literaturwissenschaft Philosophie Philosophy Romane The Novel

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"Kivy is to be warmly commended for the originality andinsight of his perspective on literature, and for the lively andengaging manner in which that perspective is developed.Philosophers interested in the complexity and significance of ourreading experience will welcome this valuable contribution to ourunderstanding of such matters." (Notre DamePhilosophical Reviews, 14 February 2012)"Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above." (Choice, 1December 2011)"With the lucidity and unflinching honesty we have come to expectfrom him, Kivy defends his distinctive vision of the aesthetics ofliterature." --Susan L. Feagin, Temple University "Peter Kivy's new book poses a deep, and disconcerting,challenge to conventional wisdom about what literature is and howand why we read novels. Agree with him or disagree, there is nodisputing the formidable powers of Kivy's reasoning, thestylishness of his writing, and the originality of hisvision." --Peter Lamarque, University of York
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