Literature and the taste of knowledge / Michael Wood.

By:

Wood, Michael, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Empson lecturesPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: ix, 205 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780521844765 (hardback)
0521844762 (harddback)
9780521606530 (pbk.)
0521606535 (pbk.)

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PN 56 W873l 2005

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Incomplete contents:

1. What Henry knew -- 2. After such knowledge -- 3. Kafka and the Third Reich -- 4. Seven types of obliquity -- 5. Missing dates -- 6. The fictionable world -- Epilogue : the essays of our life.

Abstract: Wood analyses whether literature has contributed knowledge of its own or whether it merely questions other forms of knowledge. He does so through the close examination of a range of literature such as Henry James and Kafka, and considering the forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 56 W873l 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available		00000092577

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.

1. What Henry knew -- 2. After such knowledge -- 3. Kafka and the Third Reich -- 4. Seven types of obliquity -- 5. Missing dates -- 6. The fictionable world -- Epilogue : the essays of our life.

Wood analyses whether literature has contributed knowledge of its own or whether it merely questions other forms of knowledge. He does so through the close examination of a range of literature such as Henry James and Kafka, and considering the forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction.

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