Andrew Bennett

Ignorance

Literature and agnoiology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An excellent theoretical work that investigates ignorance in literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780719074875
• ISBN-10: 0719074878
• Artikelnr.: 26250376

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