This study argues that ignorance is a 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. It sees
that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic
period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the
experience of not knowing. From 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. 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. Now available
in paperback, this exciting approach to literary theory will be of
interest to lecturers and students of literary theory and
criticism. -- .
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