Towards a Literature of Knowledge (Hardcover)

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).

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1989
First published:	May 1989
Authors:	Jerome J. McGann (John Stewart Bryan Professor of English)
Dimensions:	224 x 144 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-811740-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-19-811740-X
Barcode:	9780198117407

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