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An excellent theoretical work that investigates ignorance in literature.

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Reading 'demands more ignorance than knowledge'. Maurice Blanchot

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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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 9/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719074875, 978-0719074875
      ISBN10: 0719074878

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An excellent theoretical work that investigates ignorance in literature.

      Trade Review
      Reading 'demands more ignorance than knowledge'. Maurice Blanchot

      Table of 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, 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

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