Once-Told Tales
Once-Told Tales

Author: Peter Kivy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1444397656

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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 scholarly or critical analysis Draws comparisons with experience of the other arts, music in particular Explores the different effects of a range of narrative approaches

Tales Once Told
Tales Once Told

Author: Felix Pitre

Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780590030533

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Four tales that tell about the sun, the moon, the water, and the wind.

Thrice Told Tales
Thrice Told Tales

Author: Catherine Lewis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1442460768

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Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice. See how they run? No. See how they can make all sorts of useful literary elements colorful and easy to understand! Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly—but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman, epigram, and epistolary. From the absurd to the wish-I’d-thought-of-that clever, writing professor Catherine Lewis blends Mother Goose with Edward Gorey and Queneau, and the result is learning a whole lot more about three not so helpless mice, and how to fine tune your own writing, bildungsroman and all. If your writing is your air, this is your laughing gas.* *That’s a metaphor, friends.

Twice-told Tales
Twice-told Tales

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-06-17

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 3385520886

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Thrice Told Tales
Thrice Told Tales

Author: Catherine Lewis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1416957847

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"Can one nursery rhyme explain the secrets of the universe? Well, not exactly--but it can help you understand the difference between bildungsroman, epigram, and epistolary"--Jacket flap.

Tales Once Told
Tales Once Told

Author: Abraham Eraly

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780143099680

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A Selection Of Stories Adapted From The Ithihyamala, A Marvellous Treasury Of Legends Of Kerala These Vibrant Fables Evoke A Long-Lost, Never-Never Land: An Enchanted World Of Sorcerers, Exorcists And Yakshis; Eccentric Rajas And Haughty Poets; Martial-Arts Prodigies And Peerless Physicians; Wily Wits And Devious Gadflies; Clever Elephants, Sly Crooks, Gallant Brigands And A Motley Bunch Of Uncommon Common People. Retold By Best-Selling Author Abraham Eraly And Superbly Illustrated By Jayachandran, Tales Once Told Is An Engaging Blend Of Earthy Wisdom And Sparkling Humour.

Telephone Tales
Telephone Tales

Author: Gianni Rodari

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781592702848

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Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator must be some sort of magician, the next, it's a land filled with butter men who melt in the sunshine Awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Gianni Rodari is widely considered to be Italy's most important children's author of the 20th century. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali​ (The Forest)​, Telephone Tales​ entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.

Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time

Author: Peter Kivy

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-08-07

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1786607360

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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.