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TOWARDS A LITERATURE OF KNOWLEDGE
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| By: |
Jerome J. McGann |
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Hardback |
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£127.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019811740X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198117407 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 1989 |
| Pages: |
152 |
| Description: |
A study which examines the work of Blake, Byron, Rossetti and Pound to illustrate how truth and knowledge are gained through the practice of imaginative writing. The author questions their functions in an age where these qualities are defined in empirical and scientific terms. |
| Synopsis: |
This book examines the function of truth in poetry in an age when both knowledge and truth have been defined in empirical and scientific terms. Professor McGann argues that for two hundred years imaginative writing has been seen as a literature of power rather than a literature of knowledge - a view standing at the core of all Kantian and Romantic aesthetics, which, throughout that time, have dominated the ideas of Euro-American studies. Emerging from the postmodern critique of those traditions, he considers the work of four writers of the period - Blake, Byron, D. G. Rossetti, and Pound - in discussing ways in which poetry may be seen to possess truth-functions and to constitute a pursuit of knowledge. Towards a Literature of Knowledge was delivered as the Clark Lecture at Trinity College, and as the Carpenter Lecture at the University of Chicago, both in 1988. It is the fifth and final work in a series which began in 1983 with The Romantic Ideology. Among the related works, The Beauty of Inflections (OUP, 1985) is now available in paperback (Clarendon Paperbacks, #12.95). |
| Illustrations: |
5 illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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Returnable |
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