Literary theories of uncertainty

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Literary theories of uncertainty

edited by Mette Leonard Høeg

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Towards a Conception of 'Literary Theory of Uncertainty' Mette Leonard Hoeg, University of Oxford, UK Poststructuralist Legacies of Uncertainty 1. Suspended Sentence Patrick ffrench, King's College, London, UK 2. Poetry, Formalism and Undecidability: Some Verse Explorations Christopher Norris, Cardiff University, UK Life-Writing and Uncertainty 3. Receiving Antelme's Word Christopher Fynsk, Aberdeen, UK 4. Temporal Undecidability: in Retrospect and Prospect Max Saunders, University of Birmingham, UK 5. Ghosts of Dead Authors Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Contemporary Literary Uncertainties 6. No-Fault Murder Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, USA 8. 7. Collage Forms and Undecidability in the Work of Emine Sevgi OEzdamar Hannah Vinter, King College London, UK 8. Interrogating Twilight Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK Index

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