Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 809.93384 EAN: 9780521606530 ISBN: 0521606535 Label: Cambridge University Press Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: October 31, 2005 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Sales Rank: 729012 Studio: Cambridge University Press
Product DescriptionWhat does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This book answers and prolongs these questions through the close examination of individual works and the exploration of a broad array of examples. Chapters on Henry James, Kafka, and the form of the villanelle are interspersed with wider-ranging inquiries into forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction. Examples range from Auden to Proust and Rilke, and from Calvino to Jean Rhys and Yeats.
