Seven Modes of Uncertainty

by Namwali Serpell, C. Namwali Serpell, C Namwali Serpell

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Literature is rife with uncertainty. Literature 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 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674729099

ISBN13:9780674729094

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.64 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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