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1 online resource (219 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Uncertainty and Undecidability -- 1 The Concept of Undecidability -- The Constitution of Literary Undecidability: Author, Text, Reader -- Distinction of Undecidability as a Textual Feature and Quality -- The Affective Dimension -- Related Analytical Concepts -- The Problem of Interpretation as a Resolution of Uncertainty -- Reconsideration of the Notion of Contradiction -- Substitution of 'Dichotomy' with 'Di-Polarity' -- 2 Literary Theory of Uncertainty |
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The History of Theory of Uncertainty and the Notion of Undecidability -- Theoretical Connections and Deviations in Theory of Uncertainty -- Early Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty -- Stephen Reynolds: Autobiografiction -- Ford Madox Ford: Literary Impressionism -- New Criticism: Ambiguity -- Ambiguity and Paradox -- Mid Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty -- Wolfgang Iser: Gaps of Indeterminacy -- Geoffrey Hartman: A Hermeneutics of Indeterminacy -- Jacques Derrida: The Undecidable and Undecidabilities -- Paul de Man: Indeterminacy and Rhetoric |
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Late Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty -- Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan: Ambiguity -- J. Hillis Miller: Undecidability and Unreadability -- Allon White: Obscurity -- 3 Scenes of Literary Undecidability -- Temporal and Spatial Undecidability: In Search of Lost Time -- Sustained Existential Guilt, Punishment and Dread: The Trial -- Undecidability of Identity and Consciousness: The Waves -- 4 Palpitation of Heart, Perception and Meaning: The Good Soldier -- Against Mimetic Reductionism -- The Single Right Reading -- Acceptance of Contradiction and Undecidability -- A Narrative Strategy of Disruption |
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Denarration -- Exaggeration: Between Modification and Negation, Confusion and Manipulation -- Epistemological Uncertainty: Sincere, Performative or Synthetic? -- Irony and Ambiguity -- Meta-Literary Awareness -- Undecidability as Palpitation -- Between Realism and Meta-Fiction: Theoretical and Literary Vision -- 5 Trembling: The Man Without Qualities -- The Nachlass -- The Endlessness -- Trembling of the Borderline: Narrative Undecidability, Destabilisation of the Story-World and the Novel as Philosophical Investigation -- Between Immersion and Withdrawal -- Narrative Philosophy |
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The Potentiality of Undecidability -- Subjectivity Without Qualities -- The Fixation of the Subject by Tradition and Modernity -- Subjectivity as In-Betweenness -- Ethics and Existence as Movement -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000568547 |
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1000568547 |
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