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Author: Dr Mette Leonard Hoeg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Weight: 0.485kg
ISBN: 9781350146044
ISBN 10: 1350146048
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 23 September 2021
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Towards a Conception of ‘Literary Theory of Uncertainty’ Mette Leonard Høeg, 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 Özdamar Hannah Vinter, King College London, UK 8. Interrogating Twilight Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK Index
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[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 & 21st Century Literature *
[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 & 21st Century Literature *
Author Information
METTE LEONARD HØEG is Carlsberg Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College and visiting fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, UK. She holds a PhD in English from King’s College London, UK. A Fulbright alumna, she was assisting editor on the critical edition of Isak Dinesen’s Anecdotes of Destiny and Last Tales by the Society for Danish Language and Literature (2016) and published ‘Undecidability and Zones of Indistinction in Herta Müller’s Atemschaukel’ in a 2020 German Life and Letters special issue. In addition she has had papers appear in the journals Kultur & Klasse (2013) and Spring (2011). Høeg organised the international conference Twilight Zones: Undecidabilities in Literature and Literary Theory.
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