num_pages: 276
description: Drawing freely both from recent literary theory and from her own wide learning. Marie Jaanus Kurrik studies negation as a principle of division and difference. Her questions are both simple and What is the orthodox Western experience and tradition of negation? Can affirmation be separated from negation, from our astonishing ability to say no, to refuse, to deny in word, deed, and fantasy? Her bold scholarly odyssey begins with Genesis and considers Milton, Bacon and Shakespeare, then offers innovative readings of Emma, Middlemarch, Anna Karena, The Brothers Karamazov. and Alice in Wonderland.
language: English
title: Literature and Negation
titlecomplete: Literature and Negation
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Columbia University Press