Narratives of Nothing in 20th-century Literature
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Bloomsbury Academic · Ebook · October 22, 2015
The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century.
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- Who it’s for
- An account of how Nabokov, Beckett, and Pelevin give narrative form to nothing.
- Genres
- 20th-Century Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, East European Literary Criticism
- Published
- Bloomsbury Academic, October 22, 2015
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As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and as mathematicians argued that zero - the number that is alsonota number - allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system,Narratives ofNothing in 20th-Century Literaturesuggests that nothing itself enables the act of narration. Focusing on the literary works of Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, and Victor Pelevin, Meghan Vicks traces how and why these writers give narrative form to nothing, demonstrating that nothing is essential to the creation of narrative - that is, how our perceptions are conditioned, how we make meaning (or madness) out of the stuff of our existence, how we craft our knowable selves, and how we exist in language.
Nothing in Narrative
An account of how Nabokov, Beckett, and Pelevin give narrative form to nothing.
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- Nabokov, Beckett, and Pelevin
- How nothing enables narration
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- Literary readings of nothing and narrative
- Questions of meaning, identity, and language
Where it sits
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 88% |
|---|---|
| Literary Theory | 48% |
| East European Literary Criticism | 39% |
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Publisher categories
- Creative Writing
- Authors
- Meghan Vicks
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- October 22, 2015
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Creative Writing