Scholars@Duke publication: Saying Everything

Saying Everything

Publication , Journal Article

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.

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Author Kevin Hart Divinity School

Published In

New Literary History

DOI

10.1353/nlh.2023.a917053

EISSN

1080-661X

Publication Date

June 2023

Volume

Issue

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.

Published In

New Literary History

DOI

10.1353/nlh.2023.a917053

EISSN

1080-661X

Publication Date

June 2023

Volume

Issue

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