Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics.

Reading Literature Today: Two Complementary Essays and a Conversation. Tabish Khair - 2011 - Sage Publications. Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics.

Scary Story I looked up at the black sky. I hadn't intended to be out this late. The sun had set, and the empty road ahead had no streetlights. I knew I was in for a dark journey home. I had decided that by traveling through the forest would be the quickest way home. Minutes passed, yet it seemed.

This paper disputes the notion, endorsed by much of narrative theory, that the reading of literary narrative is functionally analogous to an act of communication, where communication stands for the transfer.

The Performance of Reading: an Essay in the Philosophy of Literature (2006). Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Music, further collected essays of Peter Kivy (collection, 2007). Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music (2009). Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics (2011).

Aesthetics and Literature places philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about literature. The book takes concrete examples from the traditional and contemporary literary arts and uses them to introduce all the central philosophical issues in literature. David Davies considers, with stimulating insight and great clarity, the nature of literature and fiction, artistic uses of language.

Everyday aestheticians have had relatively little to say about literature. Inspired by Peter Kivy’s philosophy of literature as laid out in his books The Performance of Reading and Once-Told Tales, I examine reading literature as a part of everyday life.

The end is near I must tell you. And just in case I don’t make it, I hereby give you my memoir, my autobiography. I don’t pretend to make it as poetic and flowery as the bible; my tale need not have any aesthetic quality. There would be no verses, or any of such triviality. It won’t be in testaments, old or new.

Lessons Found in Beauty and the Beast. - Lessons Found in Beauty and the Beast Once upon a time. The classic opener for any fairy tale, which is no different in the case of Beauty and the Beast. Fairy tales were meant to teach our children life lessons that society, at the time, deems important to learn.

This essay explores the relationships of parents and children as demonstrated in a few selected folk fairy tales, with regard to the ideas of the child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, Freudian psychoanalytic theory, as well as the feminist theories of Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar and Julia Kristeva.

The following background information on Cinderella tales comes from an essay by Mary Northrup entitled Multicultural Cinderella Stories, available on the website of the American Library Association. The story of Cinderella, perhaps the best-known fairy tale, is told or read to children of very young ages.

The Art of Literature (Encyclopaedia Britannica article)Definitions of the word literature tend to be circular. The Concise Oxford Dictionary says it is “writings whose value lies in the beauty of form or emotional effect.” The nineteenth-century critic Walter Pater referred to “the matter of imaginative or artistic literature” as a “transcript, not of mere fact, but of fact in its.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What has the Greek quest for excellence and order and beauty to do with the Hebrew quest for the living God? This is the question the Church Fathers asked themselves, a query that we still must raise from time to time. And in our day in particular, it is the question that Christian educators in the West should make their primary concern. (essay by Louise.