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Literary Theories of Uncertainty (Hardcover)
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Literary Theories of Uncertainty (Hardcover)
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As the first study to examine the concept of uncertainty of meaning
as it relates to modern and contemporary literature and literary
theory, Literary Theories of Uncertainty demonstrates how this
notion functions as a literary feature, narrative device and
theoretical concept in 20th and 21st-century texts. Calling upon
theories of interpretation and challenging the distinction between
literature and theory, this exploration is broken down into three
sections: Poststructuralist legacies of uncertainty; life-writing
and uncertainty; and contemporary literary uncertainties. The
volume takes into account related terms such as undecidability,
indeterminacy, ambiguity, unreadability, and obscurity, and the
topics examined include: undecidability and the motif of suspension
in deconstruction; Derrida and Bataille; poetry as a mode of
critical discourse and point of convergence between
logico-mathematical ideas of undecidability and literary forms of
uncertainty; uncertainty in relation to speech and the impact of
Robert Antelme on Mascolo and Blanchot; Proust and temporal
uncertainty; uncertainty in relation to death, trauma and
autobiography; moral uncertainty in the Scandinavian welfare state
and Nordic Noir; the aesthetically disruptive and anti-authorian
effect of uncertainty in in the works of German-Turkish writer
Emine Sevgi Ozdamar; uncertainty in the form of 'the double' and in
relation to meta-fiction; and many more. Literary Theories of
Uncertainty collates original and diverse discussions by some of
the most prominent, inquiring minds in literary, cultural and
critical theory today to map out the contours of the field of
'theory of uncertainty'.
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