What Literature Knows Forays into Literary Knowledge Production

• Other Authors: Kley, Antje (Editor), Merten, Kai (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2018
• Series: Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS) 2
• Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; History of ideas; Literature: history and criticism; Language teaching and learning; Literary theory; Psychology; Anthropology; Social and cultural anthropology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.