Once-Told Tales
An Essay in Literary Aesthetics
Human beings are captivated by stories. In the modern world we consume fiction as literature, at a huge rate-but what is at the heart of the experience of the novel, of silent reading? Philosophers of art have traditionally focused on a reading experience in which novels are read, re-read, savored, and studied in depth. In this book, Peter Kivy looks at the more common experience of a reader who reads a novel just once, or who, if he does read it again, does so for the same reason that he read it the first time: to be told a story. This is not the reading experience of the scholar or critic but that of the average reader, and it represents an…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-9765-9
- EAN: 9781444397659
- Produktnummer: 13867975
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 264 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
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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