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This book examines the function of truth in poetry in an age when both knowledge and truth have been defined in empirical and scientific terms. Professor McGann argues that for two hundred years imaginative writing has been seen as a literature of power rather than a literature of knowledge - a view standing at the core of all Kantian and Romantic aesthetics, which, throughout that time, have dominated the ideas of Euro-American studies. Emerging from the postmodern critique of those traditions, he considers the work of four writers of the period - Blake, Byron, D. G. Rossetti, and Pound - in discussing ways in which poetry may be seen to possess truth-functions and to constitute a pursuit of knowledge.
Towards a Literature of Knowledge was delivered as the Clark Lecture at Trinity College, and as the Carpenter Lecture at the University of Chicago, both in 1988. It is the fifth and final work in a series which began in 1983 with The Romantic Ideology. Among the related works, The Beauty of Inflections (OUP, 1985) is now available in paperback (Clarendon Paperbacks, #12.95).
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From reviews of The Beauty of Inflections (OUP 1985, Clarendon Paperbacks 1988): 'Few practising critics can speak concurrently on scholarly, critical, and theoretical issues with the authority of McGann.' Modern Language Notes
'has great clarity and great force' Times Literary Supplement
'McGann's book has real strengths in its reading of Blake ... a powerful intellectual effort' Murray G.H. Pittock, Notes & Queries, Vol.235, No.4, December 1990
'McGann's critical project still makes absorbing reading, and not least so because he consciously places his interpretation into the field where the painter-poet's own writings meet with "the three principal 'lines' of Blake criticism" ... and the various postulates attached to them.' Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 1, Summer 1991
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 138 pages; 20cm. NotesIncludes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction -- 1. William Blake illuminates the truth -- 2. Lord Byron's twin opposites of truth -- 3. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, or the truth betrayed -- 4. The 'Cantos' of Ezra Pound, the truth in contradiction -- Towards a literature of knowledge. Subjects: Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 Criticism and interpretation.Pound, Ezra 1885-1972.Blake, William 1757-1827.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882. Pound, Ezra 1885-1972. Blake, William 1757-1827 Criticism and interpretation. Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 Criticism and interpretation.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882 Criticism and interpretation. Blake, William 1757-1827.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882. Pound, Ezra 1885-1972. Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 Criticism and interpretation. Blake, William 1757-1827.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824.Pound, Ezra 1885-1972.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882. Blake, William.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.Pound, Ezra. Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 Critique et interprétation. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882 Critique et interprétation.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 Critique et interprétation.Blake, William 1757-1827 Critique et interprétation.Blake, William. Byron, George Gordon Byron. Pound, Ezra. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Geschichte 1783-1972. Poetry History and criticism. Poésie Histoire et critique.Poetry. English poetry 19th century History and criticism. Truth in literatureImitation In Renaissance poetry. English poetry History and criticism.English poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.Poetry History and criticism.English poetry 19th century History and criticismTruth in literature. Poetry History and criticism.Poésie anglaise Histoire et critique. Vérité dans la littérature. Lyrik. Literature General History and criticism Poetry. Literature Aesthetics. Literature Philosophy. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 390616
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 138 pages; 20cm. NotesIncludes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction -- 1. William Blake illuminates the truth -- 2. Lord Byron's twin opposites of truth -- 3. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, or the truth betrayed -- 4. The 'Cantos' of Ezra Pound, the truth in contradiction -- Towards a literature of knowledge. Subjects: Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 Criticism and interpretation.Pound, Ezra 1885-1972.Blake, William 1757-1827.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882. Pound, Ezra 1885-1972. Blake, William 1757-1827 Criticism and interpretation. Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 Criticism and interpretation.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882 Criticism and interpretation. Blake, William 1757-1827.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882. Pound, Ezra 1885-1972. Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 Criticism and interpretation. Blake, William 1757-1827.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824.Pound, Ezra 1885-1972.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882. Blake, William.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.Pound, Ezra. Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 Critique et interprétation. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882 Critique et interprétation.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 Critique et interprétation.Blake, William 1757-1827 Critique et interprétation.Blake, William. Byron, George Gordon Byron. Pound, Ezra. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Geschichte 1783-1972. Poetry History and criticism. Poésie Histoire et critique.Poetry. English poetry 19th century History and criticism. Truth in literatureImitation In Renaissance poetry. English poetry History and criticism.English poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.Poetry History and criticism.English poetry 19th century History and criticismTruth in literature. Poetry History and criticism.Poésie anglaise Histoire et critique. Vérité dans la littérature. Lyrik. Literature General History and criticism Poetry. Literature Aesthetics. Literature Philosophy. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 390616
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