Once Upon a Time: Essays in the Philosophy of Literature - Paperback

by Peter Kivy (Author), Aaron Meskin (Author)

Kivy raises questions of a philosophical nature about the novel that will be of interest both to the professional philosopher and to the general reader.

Author Biography

Peter Kivy was Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Rutgers University. His many published works include De Gustibus: Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It (2015), Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience (2009), The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics (2004) and Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music (2009). Several of his books have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. He was a former Guggenheim Fellow and a past President of the American Society for Aesthetics. Aaron Meskin is the Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Georgia.