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UNISA996394526303316 |
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Gething Richard <1585?-1652?> |
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Calligraphotechnica, or, The art of faire writing [[electronic resource] /] / sett forth and newly enlarged by Ri. Gethinge . |
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London, : To bee soulde by William Humble ..., Anno domini 1652 |
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Monografia |
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Publication date has been re-engraved on t.p. |
Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. |
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UNINA9910791952303321 |
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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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1-84779-672-9 |
1-78170-242-X |
1-84779-269-3 |
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1 online resource (260 pages) : digital file(s) |
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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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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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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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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 |
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