| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 205 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Empson lectures
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Empson lectures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
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Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
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Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wood, Michael, 1936- Literature and the taste of knowledge. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521844762 0521606535 (OCoLC)60611033 |
| ISBN |
0511130287 (electronic book) |
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9780511130281 (electronic book) |
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0511130880 (electronic book) |
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9780511130885 (electronic book) |
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051112872X (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511128721 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780521844765 |
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0521844762 |
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9780521606530 |
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0521606535 |
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0511129351 |
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9780511129353 |
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9780511485367 (ebook) |
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0511485360 (ebook) |
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1280223936 |
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9781280223938 |
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0521844762 (Cloth) |
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0521606535 (Paper) |
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