{"product_id":"ignorance-literature-and-agnoiology-9780719097430","title":"Ignorance Literature and Agnoiology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Ignorance and philosophy\u003cbr\u003e2. Literary ignorance\u003cbr\u003e3. To see as poets do: Romanticism, the sublime, and poetic ignorance\u003cbr\u003e4. The opposite of epistemology: Keatsian nescience\u003cbr\u003e5. Our ignorance of others: Middlemarch and Great Expectations\u003cbr\u003e6. Joseph Conrad’s blindness\u003cbr\u003e7. Children, death, and the enigmatic signifier: Wordsworth and Bowen\u003cbr\u003e8. Monsters and trees: Epistemelancholia in David Hume and Henry James\u003cbr\u003e9. American ignorance: Philip Roth’s America trilogy\u003cbr\u003e10. The politics of authorial ignorance: Contemporary poetry\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037354983767,"sku":"9780719097430","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719097430.jpg?v=1750935415","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ignorance-literature-and-agnoiology-9780719097430","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}