Seven Modes of Uncertainty
C. Namwali Serpell · 2014
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"What is the relationship between literature's capacity to unsettle, perplex, and bewilder us, and literature's ethical value? To revive this question, C. Namwali Serpell proposes a return to William Empson's groundbreaking work, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), which contends that literary uncertainty is crucial to ethics because it pushes us beyond the limits of our own experience. Taking as case studies experimental novels by Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Bret Easton Ellis, Ian McEwan, Elliot Perlman, Tom McCarthy, and Jonathan Safran Foer, Serpell suggests that literary uncertainty emerges from the reader's shifting responses to structures of conflicting information"--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 408
- ISBN
- 9780674729094
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