Abstract
If literature is concerned with epistemology, there must be a type of knowledge, and a type of truth, that are specific to literature. This essay attempts to give an account of this knowledge and this truth by developing a proposition advanced by Steve McCaffery, the language poet and theorist, that the task of literature is to articulate genuine experience of, in and through language. This involves at least two concepts of form, one derived from Marx, the other from Merleau-Ponty, a critique of Saussurean linguistics, and various literary illustrations, from the poetry of Isaac Rosenberg to Brian Friel's play, Translations.
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