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Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory (Hardcover)
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Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and
constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging
across time and in different contexts. This book explores the
essential literary notion and its role, function and effect in late
nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory.
The book traces the notion historically, providing a map of central
theories addressing interpretative challenges and recalcitrance in
literature and showing 'theory of uncertainty' to be an essential
strand of literary theory. While uncertainty is present in all
literature, and indeed a prerequisite for any stabilisation of
meaning, the Modernist period is characterised by a particularly
strong awareness of uncertainty and its subforms of undecidability,
ambiguity, indeterminacy, etc. With examples from seminal Modernist
works by Woolf, Proust, Ford, Kafka and Musil, the book sheds light
on undecidability as a central structuring principle and guiding
philosophical idea in twentieth-century literature and demonstrates
the analytical value of undecidability as a critical concept and
reading-strategy. Defining undecidability as a specific 'sustained'
and 'productive' kind of uncertainty and distinguishing it from
related forms, such as ambiguity, indeterminacy and indistinction,
the book develops a systematic but flexible theory of
undecidability and outlines a productive reading-strategy based on
the recognition of textual and interpretive undecidability.
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