|
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
by P de Bolla
|
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (Terry Lectures) by Terry Eagleton |
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes |
by Joseph O'Neill
|
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links(What is this?) |
Product Description
Review
'Wood maintains his easy conversational tone while thinking deeply about some of the puzzling ways in which what we inadequately call 'form' enables literature to impart what we inadequately call 'knowledge'.' Times Literary Supplement
' … a brilliantly eloquent account of what books know that their authors might not.' Observer
' … a brilliantly eloquent account of what books know that their authors might not.' Observer
Product Description
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 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.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
46% buy the item featured on this page: Literature and the Taste of Knowledge (The Empson Lectures)£17.09 |
 |
17% buy In Search Of The Dark Ages £5.97 |
 |
13% buy In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past £9.89 |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
 |
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. |
