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Autore |
Bennett Andrew <1949-> |
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Ignorance : literature and agnoiology / / Andrew Bennett |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
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©2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-84779-672-9 |
1-78170-242-X |
1-84779-269-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) in literature |
Literature |
Literature: History & Criticism |
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays |
Literary essays |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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