Seven modes of uncertainty:
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 393 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780674729094 |
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| adam_text | SEVENMODESOFUNCERTAINTY
C Namwali Serpell
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Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
! I
IMUTUALEXCLUSION/41
1 Oscillation 45
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
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2 Enfolding 79
, Rereading Ian McEwan s Atonement (2001)
IIMULTIPLICITY/115
11 !
3; Adjacency 119
; Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
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4! Accounting 153
j Interreading William Empson s Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930),
| Shirley Jackson s Seven Types of Ambiguity (1943), and Elliot
i Perlman s Seven Types of Ambiguity (2003)
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!IIIREPETITION/191
51 Vacuity 195
i Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991)
Vlll Contents
6 Synchronicity 230
Metareading Tom McCarthy s Remainder (2005)
7 Conclusion: Flippancy 269
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud amp; Incredibly
Close (2005)
Appendix 1: The Vagaries of the New Ethics 293
Appendix 2: Seven Modes of Uncertainty 303
Notes 305
Acknowledgments 379
Index 381
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iterature is rife with uncertainty. Litera-
ture 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 liter-
ature’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 McCar-
thy, and Jonathan Safran Foer, Serpell suggests
that literary uncertainty emerges from the read-
er’s shifting responses to structures of conflicting
information. A number of these novels employ
a structure of mutual exclusion, which presents
opposed explanations for the same events. Some
use a structure of multiplicity, which presents
different perspectives regarding events or charac-
ters. The structure of repetition in other texts de-
stabilizes the continuity of events and frustrates
our ability to follow the story.
To explain how these structures produce uncer-
tainty, Serpell borrows from cognitive psycholo-
gy the concept of affordance, which describes an
object’s or environment’s potential uses. Moving
through these narrative structures affords vari-
ous ongoing modes of uncertainty, which in turn
afford ethical experiences both positive and neg-
ative. At the crossroads of recent critical turns to
literary form, reading practices, and ethics, Seven
JS/Lodes of Uncertainty offers a new phenomenolo-
gy of how we read uncertainty now.
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