Literature and the Taste of Knowledge
by
Michael Wood
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The Empson Lectures
ISBN-10
0521844762
ISBN-13
9780521844765
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 29th, 2005
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
400 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismLiterature: history and criticism
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What does literature know? This 2005 study offers a lively new look at this very ancient question and calls a large range of modern novels and poems to the witness stand. The writers discussed include Henry James, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Jean Rhys and many others.
What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer and to prolong these questions through the close examination of individual works and the exploration of a broad array of examples. Chapters on Henry James, Kafka, and the form of the villanelle are interspersed with wider-ranging inquiries into forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction, with examples ranging from Auden to Proust and Rilke, and from Calvino to Jean Rhys and Yeats. Literature is a form of pretence. But every pretence could tilt us into the real, and many of them do. There is no safe place for the reader: no literalist's haven where fact is always fact; and no paradise of metaphor, where our poems, plays and novels have no truck at all with the harsh and shifting world.
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