Once-told tales: an essay in literary aesthetics
by Kivy, Peter
fromNew directions in aesthetics
by Kivy, Peter
fromNew directions in aesthetics
by Kivy, Peter
fromNew directions in aesthetics
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 Tim…
by Kivy, Peter
fromNew directions in 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…
by Kivy, Peter
fromNew directions in 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…
Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is …
"According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such works refe…
"According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such works refe…
Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is …