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Ignorance

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Ignorance

By Andrew Bennett

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About the book

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. 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, write...Show more

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9780719097430

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Ignorance

Format

Paperback

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