Seven Modes of Uncertainty
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Book
ISBN
9780674729094, 0674729099
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viii, 393 pages ; 25 cm
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Language
English
ISBN
9780674729094, 0674729099
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-377) and index.
Description
"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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Serpell, N. (2014). Seven Modes of Uncertainty . Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Serpell, Namwali, 1980-. 2014. Seven Modes of Uncertainty. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Serpell, Namwali, 1980-. Seven Modes of Uncertainty Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Serpell, Namwali. Seven Modes of Uncertainty Harvard University Press, 2014.
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