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Literature and the Taste of Knowledge

Literature and the Taste of Knowledge

Wood, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Empson Lectures

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521844762
ISBN13: 9780521844765
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 29 2005
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.84
Language: English
What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This book answers and prolongs 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. Examples range from Auden to Proust and Rilke, and from Calvino to Jean Rhys and Yeats.

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