TY  - BOOK
AU  - Antje Kley
AU  - Kai Merten
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2366-5068
SN  - 9783631757864
TI  - What Literature Knows
T2  - Forays into Literary Knowledge Production
DO  - 10.3726/b14220
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068074
N2  - This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. The authors discuss literature as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own right, which deploys narrative and poetic means of exploration to establish an independent and sometimes dissident archive. The worlds that imaginary texts project are shown to open up alternative perspectives to be reckoned with in the academic articulation and public discussion of issues in economics and the sciences, identity formation and wellbeing, legal rationale and political decision-making.
KW  - knowledge formation, knowledge production, literary knowledge, forms and functions of literary writing, literature and medicine, literature as dissident archive
LA  - English
ER  -