Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality features 14
new essays by leading specialists in critical theory, comparative
literature, philosophy, and English literature. The essays, which
present wide-ranging historical considerations of negation in light
of recent developments in poststructuralism and postmodernism,
range over many of the siginificant texts in which negation figures
prominently. The book includes a wide-ranging introductory chapter
that examines how attention to negation -- the inescapable
nescience that is posited in any and every linguistic expression --
enhances the hermeneutic possibilities present in language. In
addition, the four sections of the book bring together major
critical interventions on, among others, negative meaning,
unrecognizability, elenctic negation, apocalypse, nihilism,
negation and gender, and denegation. All the essays involve close
attention to key texts by major authors, including William
Shakespeare, Henry James, Federico Garcia Lorca, Samuel Beckett,
Thomas Bernhard, Walt Whitman, E.M. Forster, Mary Shelley, Margaret
Atwood, Roland Barthes, Douglas Barbour, Paul de Man, bp Nichol,
Jacques Derrida, and Dogen Kigen. The volume opens up new areas in
critical theory, comparative literature, and the philosophy of
language, and defines a major new area of inquiry in relation to
notions of postmodern textuality. Critical theorists, students of
comparative literature, English literature, and the history of
ideas, and those interested in the hermeneutic implications of
postmodernism will find this volume of substantial interest. Its
extensive bibliographical apparatus and index make the collection a
valuable reference tool for upper-level undergraduate and graduate
students as well as for those seeking a variety of interpretive
approaches to the problem of negation in literature. "
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