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.

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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