Once Upon a Time
Essays in the Philosophy of Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 7 August 2019
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781786607348
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages140 pages
- Size 238.51x157.23x17.018 mm
- Weight 395 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b/w illustrations; Illustrations, unspecified 0
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"Once Upon a Time is a collection of essays in the philosophy of literature with two central themes: the significance of story -telling for us and the question of whether the novel, perhaps the art form most closely associated with story-telling, is a legitimate source of human knowledge. Leading philosopher of art Peter Kivy explores why human beings are so enthralled by being told stories and whether story-telling is a significant source of knowledge. Starting with a study of Aristotle's Poetics, Kivy then undertakes a critical discussion of Noel Carroll's suggestion that our interaction with the artists of the past is a kind of ""conversation."" He goes on to defend the thesis that one of the legitimate artistic pleasures we take in novel-reading is the acquiring of knowledge and, furthermore, that the silent reading of a novel is a kind of performance, making the novel one of the performing arts. The volume concludes with a chapter about jokes, and, in particular, whether it is immoral to tell or be amused by an ""immoral"" joke. This volume of essays is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in literature and the conceptual problems it may raise for philosophers."
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface / 1. The Actual, the Possible and the Probable: Problems in Poetics IX / 2. Criticism, Communication, Conversation, Craft / 3. Facts From Fictions / 4. Knowledge and Novel Knowledge / 5. Swept Up in the Story / 6. Tell Me a Story! / 7. The Dancer and the Dance: On Reading as Performance / 8. Joking Morality / Bibliography / Index
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