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. 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. 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. This exciting approach to literary
theory will be of interest to lecturers and students of literary
theory and criticism. -- .
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