What Literature Knows: Forays into Literary Knowledge Production

by Antje Kley (Editor), Kai Merten (Editor)

Overview

Essays explore how historically specific literary texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. Literature is discussed as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own right, which deploys narrative and poetic methods of exploration to establish a dissident archive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631750148
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	06/12/2018
Series:	Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS) , #2
Edition description:	New
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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