Ignorance : literature and agnoiology / Andrew Bennett.
This text offers a new theory of & new ways of thinking about literature, with insights into literary theory. It offers an important rethinking of Romanticism & its influence on literary studies, from the 19th century to the present. It includes new readings of a range of authors including W...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.