Literature and the Taste of Knowledge

by Michael Wood

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521606535
• ISBN13: 9780521606530
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.6"