03856nam 2200865 450 991080824650332120200122163003.01-84779-672-91-78170-242-X1-84779-269-3(CKB)2560000000085743(EBL)1069580(OCoLC)818847306(SSID)ssj0000712785(PQKBManifestationID)12280896(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712785(PQKBWorkID)10651300(PQKB)10348934(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086940(MiAaPQ)EBC1069580(Au-PeEL)EBL1069580(CaPaEBR)ebr10623406(CaONFJC)MIL843606(UkMaJRU)992979626816601631(DE-B1597)658970(DE-B1597)9781847792693(EXLCZ)99256000000008574320191128h20132009 uy| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIgnorance literature and agnoiology /Andrew BennettManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2013.©20091 online resource (260 pages) digital file(s)Includes index.0-7190-9743-6 0-7190-7487-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 poetryIndexAndrew 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, incluEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismIgnorance (Theory of knowledge) in literatureLiteraturemupLiterature: History & CriticismbicsscLITERARY COLLECTIONS / EssaysbisachLiterary essaysthemaRomantic period.agnoiology.democracy.ethical.ignorance.literary texts.literature.narrative force.not knowing.poetics.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) in literature.LiteratureLiterature: History & CriticismLITERARY COLLECTIONS / EssaysLiterary essays823.809Bennett Andrew1949-1695237UkMaJRUBOOK9910808246503321Ignorance4074338UNINA