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| adam_text | Contents Introduction: Uncertainty and Undecidability 1 The Concept of Undecidability 1 14 The Constitution of Literary Undecidability: Author, Text, Reader 14 Distinction of Undecidability as a Textual Feature and Quality 18 The Affective Dimension 20 Related Analytical Concepts 21 The Problem of Interpretation as a Resolution of Uncertainty 24 Reconsideration of the Notion of Contradiction 27 Substitution of ‘Dichotomy with ‘Di-Polarity’ 28 2 Literary Theory of Uncertainty The History of Theory of Uncertainty and the Notion of Undecidability 32 Theoretical Connections and Deviations in Theory of Uncertainty 39 Early Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty 41 Stephen Reynolds: Autobiografiction 43 Ford Madox Ford: Literary Impressionism 46 New Criticism: Ambiguity 51 Ambiguity and Paradox 54 Mid Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty 58 Wolfgang Iser: Gaps of Indeterminacy 62 Geoffrey Hartman: A Hermeneutics of Indeterminacy 68 Jacques Derrida: The Undecidable and Undecidabilities 71 Paul de Man: Indeterminacy and Rhetoric 78 Late Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty 86 Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan: Ambiguity 87 J. Hillis Miller: Undecidability and Unreadability 92 Allan White: Obscurity 95 32
x Contents 3 Scenes of Literary Undecidability Temporal and Spatial Undecidability: In Search of Lost Time 100 Sustained Existential Guilt, Punishment and Dread: The Trial 109 Undecidability of Identity and Consciousness: The Waves 119 4 Palpitation of Heart, Perception and Meaning: The Good Soldier Against Mimetic Reductionism 130 The Single Right Reading 13S Acceptance of Contradiction and Undecidability 137 A Narrative Strategy of Disruption 139 Denarration 141 Exaggeration: Between Modification and Negation, Confusion and Manipulation 144 Epistemological Uncertainty: Sincere, Performative or Synthetic? 147 Irony and Ambiguity 149 Meta-Literary Awareness 151 Undecidability as Palpitation 153 Between Realism and Meta-Fiction: Theoretical and Literary Vision 158 5 100 127 Trembling: The Man Without Qualities The Nachlass 165 The Endlessness 166 Trembling of the Borderline: Narrative Undecidability, Destabilisation of the Story-World and the Novel as Philosophical Investigation 170 Between Immersion and Withdrawal 174 Narrative Philosophy 178 The Potentiality of Undecidability 179 Subjectivity Without Qualities 181 The Fixation of the Subject by Tradition and Modernity 182 Subjectivity as In-Betweenness 186 Ethics and Existence as Movement 190 163 Conclusion 193 Bibliography Index 199 205
Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging across time and in different contexts. This book explores the essential literary notion and its role, function and effect in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory. The book traces the notion historically, providing a map of central theories addressing interpretative challenges and recalcitrance in literature and showing ‘theory of uncertainty’ to be an essential strand of literary theory. While uncertainty is present in all literature, and indeed a prerequisite for any stabilisation of meaning, the Modernist period is characterised by a particularly strong awareness of uncertainty and its subforms of undecidability, ambiguity, indeter minacy, etc. With examples from seminal Modernist works by Woolf, Proust, Ford, Kafka and Musil, the book sheds light on undecidabil ity as a central structuring principle and guiding philosophical idea in twentieth-century literature and demonstrates the analytical value of undecidability as a critical concept and reading-strategy. Defining unde cidability as a specific ‘sustained’ and ‘productive’ kind of uncertainty and distinguishing it from related forms, such as ambiguity, indetermi nacy and indistinction, the book develops a systematic but flexible the ory of undecidability and outlines a productive reading-strategy based on the recognition of textual and interpretive undecidability.
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Contents Introduction: Uncertainty and Undecidability 1 The Concept of Undecidability 1 14 The Constitution of Literary Undecidability: Author, Text, Reader 14 Distinction of Undecidability as a Textual Feature and Quality 18 The Affective Dimension 20 Related Analytical Concepts 21 The Problem of Interpretation as a Resolution of Uncertainty 24 Reconsideration of the Notion of Contradiction 27 Substitution of ‘Dichotomy' with ‘Di-Polarity’ 28 2 Literary Theory of Uncertainty The History of Theory of Uncertainty and the Notion of Undecidability 32 Theoretical Connections and Deviations in Theory of Uncertainty 39 Early Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty 41 Stephen Reynolds: Autobiografiction 43 Ford Madox Ford: Literary Impressionism 46 New Criticism: Ambiguity 51 Ambiguity and Paradox 54 Mid Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty 58 Wolfgang Iser: Gaps of Indeterminacy 62 Geoffrey Hartman: A Hermeneutics of Indeterminacy 68 Jacques Derrida: The Undecidable and Undecidabilities 71 Paul de Man: Indeterminacy and Rhetoric 78 Late Twentieth-Century Theory of Uncertainty 86 Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan: Ambiguity 87 J. Hillis Miller: Undecidability and Unreadability 92 Allan White: Obscurity 95 32
x Contents 3 Scenes of Literary Undecidability Temporal and Spatial Undecidability: In Search of Lost Time 100 Sustained Existential Guilt, Punishment and Dread: The Trial 109 Undecidability of Identity and Consciousness: The Waves 119 4 Palpitation of Heart, Perception and Meaning: The Good Soldier Against Mimetic Reductionism 130 The Single Right Reading 13S Acceptance of Contradiction and Undecidability 137 A Narrative Strategy of Disruption 139 Denarration 141 Exaggeration: Between Modification and Negation, Confusion and Manipulation 144 Epistemological Uncertainty: Sincere, Performative or Synthetic? 147 Irony and Ambiguity 149 Meta-Literary Awareness 151 Undecidability as Palpitation 153 Between Realism and Meta-Fiction: Theoretical and Literary Vision 158 5 100 127 Trembling: The Man Without Qualities The Nachlass 165 The Endlessness 166 Trembling of the Borderline: Narrative Undecidability, Destabilisation of the Story-World and the Novel as Philosophical Investigation 170 Between Immersion and Withdrawal 174 Narrative Philosophy 178 The Potentiality of Undecidability 179 Subjectivity Without Qualities 181 The Fixation of the Subject by Tradition and Modernity 182 Subjectivity as In-Betweenness 186 Ethics and Existence as Movement 190 163 Conclusion 193 Bibliography Index 199 205
Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging across time and in different contexts. This book explores the essential literary notion and its role, function and effect in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory. The book traces the notion historically, providing a map of central theories addressing interpretative challenges and recalcitrance in literature and showing ‘theory of uncertainty’ to be an essential strand of literary theory. While uncertainty is present in all literature, and indeed a prerequisite for any stabilisation of meaning, the Modernist period is characterised by a particularly strong awareness of uncertainty and its subforms of undecidability, ambiguity, indeter minacy, etc. With examples from seminal Modernist works by Woolf, Proust, Ford, Kafka and Musil, the book sheds light on undecidabil ity as a central structuring principle and guiding philosophical idea in twentieth-century literature and demonstrates the analytical value of undecidability as a critical concept and reading-strategy. Defining unde cidability as a specific ‘sustained’ and ‘productive’ kind of uncertainty and distinguishing it from related forms, such as ambiguity, indetermi nacy and indistinction, the book develops a systematic but flexible the ory of undecidability and outlines a productive reading-strategy based on the recognition of textual and interpretive undecidability. |
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