{"product_id":"literary-theories-of-uncertainty-9781350259706","title":"Literary Theories of Uncertainty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the first study to examine the concept of uncertainty of meaning as it relates to modern and contemporary literature and literary theory,\u003ci\u003e Literary Theories of Uncertainty \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Mette Leonard] excellently and proficiently discusses the meaning of considering literature through a lens of uncertainty and describes the value of studying the potentially opaque topic ... The contributors include diverse perspectives that provide the reader with a comprehensive, global look at theories of uncertainty. The book delivers on its promise to argue for uncertainty’s place at the center of ascertaining and creating literary meaning through a volume that is thoughtfully rigorous and cleverly structured to facilitate the reader’s understanding. * Studies in 20th \u0026amp; 21st Century Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  List of Contributors  Introduction: Towards a Conception of ‘Literary Theory of Uncertainty’ \u003ci\u003eMette Leonard Høeg, University of Oxford, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePoststructuralist Legacies of Uncertainty\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Suspended Sentence \u003ci\u003ePatrick ffrench, King's College, London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Poetry, Formalism and Undecidability: Some Verse Explorations \u003ci\u003eChristopher Norris, Cardiff University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eLife-Writing and Uncertainty\u003c\/b\u003e 3. Receiving Antelme’s Word \u003ci\u003eChristopher Fynsk, Aberdeen, UK\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Temporal Undecidability: in Retrospect and Prospect \u003ci\u003eMax Saunders, University of Birmingham, UK\u003c\/i\u003e 5.  Ghosts of Dead Authors \u003ci\u003eMieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eContemporary Literary Uncertainties\u003c\/b\u003e 6. No-Fault Murder \u003ci\u003eBruce Robbins, Columbia University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 8. 7. Collage Forms and Undecidability in the Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar \u003ci\u003eHannah Vinter, King College London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Interrogating Twilight \u003ci\u003eNicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019646468439,"sku":"9781350259706","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350259706.jpg?v=1750780894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-theories-of-uncertainty-9781350259706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}