Narratives of nothing in 20th-century literature. (2015 copyright 2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Meghan Vicks.
• Authors: Vicks, Meghan
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter Zero: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Theorizing Nothing -- Chapter Two: Nineteenth-Century Prototypes - Akaky Akakievich and Bartleby as Nothings that Write Narrative -- Chapter Three: Cradling the Abyss - Vladimir Nabokov and the Semiotics of Nothing -- Chapter Four: Samuel Beckett - Writing Immanent Nothingness -- Chapter Five: Writing the Void and Voided Writing in the Works of Victor Pelevin -- Conclusion: Nothing as the Transcendental Signified -- Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (176 pages)
• Subjects: 813.54; Literary theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union); LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism -- European -- Eastern; Literary Criticism -- European -- French; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Nothing (Philosophy) in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501307225; 1501307223
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