Download or read book Once-Told Tales written by Peter Kivy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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