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Saying Everything

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Hart, K
Published in: New Literary History
June 2023

Abstract: Can one "know everything"? In the past, there were people who came close to doing so, but it seems impossible to have contemporaries who know everything. Certainly, some texts aspire to "say everything"; and the French expression tout dire has a venerable history. Yet saying everything is not the same as polymathy. Can texts, however, be polymaths? A case for an affirmative answer to the question is made by way of passive constitution.

Duke Scholars

Published In

New Literary History

DOI

EISSN

1080-661X

Publication Date

June 2023

Volume

54

Issue

3

Start / End Page

1305 / 1322

Publisher

Project MUSE

Related Subject Headings

  • Literary Studies
  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 2103 Historical Studies
  • 2005 Literary Studies
  • 2002 Cultural Studies
 

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Hart, K. (2023). Saying Everything. New Literary History, 54(3), 1305–1322. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2023.a917053
Hart, Kevin. “Saying Everything.” New Literary History 54, no. 3 (June 2023): 1305–22. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2023.a917053.
Hart K. Saying Everything. New Literary History. 2023 Jun;54(3):1305–22.
Hart, Kevin. “Saying Everything.” New Literary History, vol. 54, no. 3, Project MUSE, June 2023, pp. 1305–22. Crossref, doi:10.1353/nlh.2023.a917053.
Hart K. Saying Everything. New Literary History. Project MUSE; 2023 Jun;54(3):1305–1322.
Journal cover image

Published In

New Literary History

DOI

EISSN

1080-661X

Publication Date

June 2023

Volume

54

Issue

3

Start / End Page

1305 / 1322

Publisher

Project MUSE

Related Subject Headings

  • Literary Studies
  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 2103 Historical Studies
  • 2005 Literary Studies
  • 2002 Cultural Studies