Ignorance: literature and agnoiology
Auteur :
Bennett, Andrew
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9780719097430
Date de publication :
30 juin 2015
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
318 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This study argues that ignorance is a 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. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of not knowing. -- .