Once–Told Tales – An Essay In Literary Aesthetics

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).

Preface. 1. What it's All About. 2. The Aesthetics of Literature: A Neglected Topic. 3. The Aesthetic Property: Its Kinds and Its Kind. 4. The Ethical, the Aesthetic, and the Artistic. 5. Structure Aesthetics and Novelistic Structure. 6. Continuous Time and Interrupted Time. 7. Seeing is Believing. 8. Reading is Believing. 9. Twice-Told Tales and More. Appendix: Paraphrasing Poetry. References. Index.