Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality
Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality features 14 new essays by leading specialists in critical theory, comparative literature, philosophy, and English literature. The essays, which present wide-ranging historical considerations of negation in light of recent developments in poststruc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality
- I Negative Meaning, Unrecognizability, Elenctic Negation, and Apocalypse
- Deconstruction and Negative Meaning in Medieval Mysticism
- “In No Recognizable Way” The Tempest
- “My Real Smash”: Elenctic Negation in Henry James’s The Ambassadors
- “Where Dream used to Collide with its Reality”: The Apocalyptic Space of Negation in García Lorca’s Poet in New York
- II Nothing Doing and Nihilism
- Nothing Doing: The Repudiation of Action in Beckett’s More Pricks Than Kicks
- The Shadow Life: Negation, Nihilism, and Insanity in Thomas Bernhard’s Correction
- III Engendering Negation
- Beyond Negation: Paradoxical Affirmation in Whitman’s Third Edition
- Forster’s Ghosts: A Passage to India and the Emptying of Narrative
- Putting on the Feminine: Gender and Negativity in Frankenstein and the Handmaid’s Tale
- IV Theory, Practice, and Denegation
- Negation and the Evil Eye: A Reading of Camera Lucida
- “Theres More Nothing to Say”: Unspeaking Douglas Barbour’s “Story for a Saskatchewan Night”
- Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism
- Derrida and D?gen: Denegation and the Liberation of Discriminating Thought
- Contributors