Bennett Ignorance

Literature and agnoiology
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-269-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

An excellent theoretical work that investigates ignorance in literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol