Andrew Bennett

Ignorance

Literature and agnoiology

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Produktbeschreibung

This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of not knowing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097430
• ISBN-10: 0719097436
• Artikelnr.: 42603869

Autorenporträt

Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Ignorance and philosophy 2. Literary
ignorance 3. To see as poets do: Romanticism, the sublime, and poetic
ignorance 4. The opposite of epistemology: Keatsian nescience 5. Our
ignorance of others: Middlemarch and Great Expectations 6. Joseph Conrad's
blindness 7. Children, death, and the enigmatic signifier: Wordsworth and
Bowen 8. Monsters and trees: Epistemelancholia in David Hume and Henry
James 9. American ignorance: Philip Roth's America trilogy 10. The politics
of authorial ignorance: Contemporary poetry