{"product_id":"ignorance-andrew-bennett-9780719097430","title":"Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology","description":"Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is 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. He sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of not knowing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Wordsworth and Keats to George Eliot and Charles Dickens, from Henry James to Joseph Conrad, from Elizabeth Bowen to Philip Roth and Seamus Heaney, writers have been fascinated and compelled by the question of ignorance, including their own. Bennett argues that there is a politics and ethics as well as a poetics of ignorance: literature's agnoiology, its acknowledgement of the limits of what we know both of ourselves and of others, engages with the possibility of democracy and the ethical, and allows us to begin to conceive of what it might mean to be human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis exciting approach to literary theory will be of interest to lecturers and students of literary theory and criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0719097436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780719097430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.57d","brand":"Andrew Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059554218239,"sku":"9780719097430","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16f53108-9928-4b22-b8bc-9a2707d81fb6.jpg?v=1685058928","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ignorance-andrew-bennett-9780719097430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}