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 the more common perspective of a reader who reads to be told a story, rather than for scholarlyor critical analysis Draws comparisons with experience of the other arts, music in particular Explores the different effects of a range of narrative approaches INDICE: Preface. 1. What its All About. 2. The Aesthetics of Literature: ANeglected Topic. 3. The Aesthetic Property: Its Kinds and Its Kind. 4. The Ethical, the Aesthetic, and the Artistic. 5. Structure Aesthetics and NovelisticStructure. 6. Continuous Time and Interrupted Time. 7. Seeing is Believing. 8. Reading is Believing. 9. Twice-Told Tales and More. Appendix. Bibliography.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-65767-6
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 15/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés