What Literature Knows

Forays into Literary Knowledge Production

AvAntje Kley,Kai Merten

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del 2 i serien Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS)

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Beskrivning

This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. The authors discuss literature as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own right, which deploys narrative and poetic means of exploration to establish an independent and sometimes dissident archive. The worlds that imaginary texts project are shown to open up alternative perspectives to be reckoned with in the academic articulation and public discussion of issues in economics and the sciences, identity formation and wellbeing, legal rationale and political decision-making.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:512 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS)
Antal sidor:342
Förlag:Peter Lang AG
ISBN:9783631750148

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Antje Kley is professor of American Literary Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her research interests focus on aesthetic forms and cultural functions of narrative, both autobiographical and fictional, in changing media environments between the eighteenth century and the present.Kai Merten is professor of British Literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His research focuses on contemporary poetry in English, Romantic culture in Britain as well as on questions of mediality in British literature and Postcolonial Studies. He is also the founder of the Erfurt Network on New Materialism.

Innehållsförteckning

Gendered Knowledge – Natural Knowledge and Self-Awareness – Poetic vs. Encyclopaedic Knowledge – Crisis of Knowledge – Romanticism and Anoetic Knowledge – Literary and Medical Configurations of Knowledge – Fourth Dimension and Impossible Knowledge – Mass Literature and Knowledge – Scientific Knowledge and the Display Function of Literature – The Art of Deception: Knowledge Distribution – Knowledge and Successiveness – Knowledge Regimes, Power, and Wellbeing – Historiography and the Production of Knowledge