Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Author:   Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 March 2011
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Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music


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Author:   Peter Kivy (Rutgers University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.70cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9780199596294


ISBN 10:   0199596298
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Preface PART I: THE FOUNDING OF FORMALISM 1: First the Music, and then the Words 2: Designs à la Grecque 3: Body and Soul PART II: THE FORTUNES OF FORMALISM 4: Mood and Music 5: Persona Non Grata 6: Action and Agency 7: Shostakovich's Secret? PART III: THE FATE OF FORMALISM 8: The Failure of Formalism and the Failure of its Foes 9: Attention, Ritual, and the Additive Strategy 10: Musical Morality 11: Empty Pleasure to the Ear BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Antithetical Arts, like Kivy's earlier books, is a model of clarity and shows great historical sensitivity and engagement with the issues under discussion. Jeanette Bicknell, Mind Kivy's writing style happily shares many of the characteristics of good literature - wit, elegance, clarity, clear narrative development and readability. In short, his book, apart from anything else, is a good read. To the aesthetician, it is also of great philosophical interest, amd places the current debates on musical expression within a historical context. Elisa Galgut, Philosophical Quarterly


Antithetical Arts , like Kivy's earlier books, is a model of clarity and shows great historical sensitivity and engagement with the issues under discussion. Jeanette Bicknell Mind 119


Author Information

Peter Kivy is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey. His field of specialization is aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

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