Literary Ignorance. Bennett, A. In Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. Routledge, 2 edition, 2022. Num Pages: 9abstract bibtex Literature confronts us with the question of what it knows and of the kind of knowledge it may be said to yield. What does it mean to say that an author or a work ‘knows’ something or allows us to know it? Does a literary text reveal something about the world that is otherwise unknown? This chapter discusses an important tradition in literary theory and practice in which literature is seen as centrally concerned with knowing ignorance and with remaining in ignorance, in valuing and exploring the condition or the experience of not knowing. The chapter proposes that ignorance is at work on thematic, narratological, and authorial levels, but that nescience is also itself an important element in the process of interpretation and in the experience of reading. In this sense, literature may be conceived of as a form of dissident writing – of writing that, rather than claiming knowledge, claims that it can help us to know the conceptual contours and cultural value of not knowing.
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