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Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.

Space in literature. --- Boundaries in literature. --- Liminality in literature.

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A "blind spot" suggests an obstructed view, or partisan perception, or a localized lack of understanding. Just as the brain "reads" the "blind spot" of the visual field by a curious process of readjustment, Shakespearean drama disorients us with moments of unmastered and unmasterable knowledge, recasting the way we see, know and think about knowing. Focusing on such moments of apparent obscurity, this volume puts methods and motives of knowing under the spotlight, and responds both to inscribed acts of blind-sighting, and to the text or action blind-sighting the reader or spectator. While tracing the hermeneutic yield of such occlusion is its main conceptual aim, it also embodies a methodological innovation: structured as an internal dialogue, it aims to capture, and stake out a place for, a processive intellectual energy that enables a distinctive way of knowing in academic life; and to translate a sense of intellectual "community" into print.

Blind Spots. --- Blinder Fleck. --- Early Modern literature. --- Frühe Neuzeit. --- Orientierungslosigkeit. --- Shakespeare. --- Wissen. --- blind-sighting. --- disorientation. --- knowability. --- knowing. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Blind Spots. --- Early Modern literature. --- Shakespeare. --- blind-sighting. --- disorientation. --- knowability. --- knowing.

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The primary aim of Knowing Faith is to uncover the intervention of literary texts and approaches in a wider conversation about religious knowledge: why we need it, how to get there, where to stop, and how to recognise it once it has been attained. Its relative freedom from specialised disciplinary investments allows a literary lens to bring into focus the relatively elusive strands of thinking about belief, knowledge and salvation, probing the particulars of affect implicit in the generalities of doctrine. The essays in this volume collectively probe the dynamic between literary form, religious faith and the process, psychology and ethics of knowing in early modern England. Addressing both the poetics of theological texts and literary treatments of theological matter, they stretch from the Reformation to the early Enlightenment, and cover a variety of themes ranging across religious hermeneutics, rhetoric and controversy, the role of the senses, and the entanglement of justice, ethics and practical theology. The book should appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, theologians and historians of religion, and general readers with a broad interest in Renaissance cultures of knowing. .

Literature. --- Christianity. --- Europe --- Literature, Modern. --- British literature. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Christianity --- Religions --- Church history --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History—1492-. --- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- Religion and literature. --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Epistemology, Religious --- Religious epistemology --- Religious knowledge, Theory of --- Religion --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Literature and religion --- Philosophy --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Moral and religious aspects --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Europe—History—1492-.

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"Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt locates literature at the intersection of areas of thinking focused on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge: philosophy, theology, science and the law. The essays engage with literary texts across a wide range of periods and genres to address the continuities and paradigmatic shifts in certain key epistemological categories. These include questions of probability and certainty, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment, and the poetics and ethics of doubt. Through its interdisciplinary and diachronic explorations, the volume registers the way in which imaginative literature responds to the pressures of particular historical moments, at the same time as it charts a larger history of the relation between literary thinking and epistemic practices in other fields."

Englisch. --- English literature --- English literature. --- Erfahrung. --- Experience in literature. --- Experience in literature. --- Experiment. --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Literatur. --- Literature and society --- Literature and society. --- Motiv. --- Skepsis. --- Skepticism in literature. --- Skepticism in literature. --- Wissen. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History --- England.

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Placing ‘literature’ at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in the history of early modern epistemology. It is premised on the belief that early modern practices of change and exchange produced a range of epistemic shifts and crises, which, nonetheless, lacked a systematic vocabulary. These essays collectively tap into the imaginative kernel at the core of economic experience, to grasp and give expression to some of its more elusive experiential dimensions. The essays gathered here probe the early modern interface between imaginative and mercantile knowledge, between technologies of change in the field of commerce and transactions in the sphere of cultural production, and between forms of transaction and representation. In the process, they go beyond the specific interrelation of economic life and literary work to bring back into view the thresholds between economics on the one hand, and religious, legal and natural philosophical epistemologies on the other.

Economics and literature --- European literature --- History. --- History and criticism.