1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465641403321

Autore

Bennett Andrew <1949->

Titolo

Ignorance [[electronic resource] ] : literature and agnoiology / / Andrew Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

1-84779-672-9

1-78170-242-X

1-84779-269-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

823.809

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719074875; 9780719074875; Copyright Page; Contents; 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, deathand the enigmatic signifier:Wordsworth and Bowen; 8 Monsters and trees:epistemelancholia in David Hume and Henry James; 9 American ignorance:Philip Roth's American trilogy; 10 The politics of authorial ignorance:contemporary poetry

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is 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. He sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of



not knowing. From Wordsworth and Keats to George Eliot and Charles Dickens, from Henry James to Joseph Conrad, from Elizabeth Bowen to Philip Roth and Seamus Heaney, writers have been fascinated and compelled by the question of ignorance, inclu