Seven modes of uncertainty /

Literature is rife with uncertainty. Literature is good for us. These two ideas about reading literature are often taken for granted. But what is the relationship between literature's capacity to unsettle, perplex, and bewilder us, and literature's ethical value? To revive this question, C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Serpell, Namwali, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Andrae, A.
Fiction > History and criticism.
Literature and morals.
Ethics in literature.
Literature > Aesthetics.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et morale.
Morale dans la littérature.
Littérature > Esthétique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Ambiguity in literature
Ethics in literature
Experimental fiction
Fiction
Literature > Aesthetics
Literature and morals
Uncertainty in literature
Englisch
Moral
Ethik > Motiv
Literaturpsychologie
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mutual exclusion. Oscillation : Thomas Pynchon, The crying of lot 49 (1966)
  • Enfolding : rereading Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001)
  • Multiplicity. Adjacency : Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
  • Accounting : interreading William Empson's Seven types of ambiguity (1930), Shirley Jackson's "Seven types of ambiguity" (1943), and Elliot Perlman's Seven types of ambiguity (2003)
  • Repetition. Vacuity : Bret Easton Ellis, American psycho (1991)
  • Synchronicity : metareading Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005)
  • Conclusion : flippancy : Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely loud & incredibly close (2005).

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