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Literature and the taste of knowledge /

What does literature know? This study offers a lively new look at this very ancient question and calls a large range of modern novels and poems to the witness stand. The writers discussed include Henry James, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Jean Rhys and many others.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, Michael, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Colección:Empson lectures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Among the analogies; CHAPTER 1 What Henry knew; CHAPTER 2 After such knowledge; CHAPTER 3 Kafka and the Third Reich; CHAPTER 4 Seven types of obliquity; CHAPTER 5 Missing dates; CHAPTER 6 The fictionable world; Epilogue: The essays of our life; Bibliography; Index.