Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality

Introduction: Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality; D. Fischlin. Part I: Negative Meaning, Unrecognizability, Elenctic Negation, and Apocalypse. Deconstruction and Negative Meaning in Medieval Mysticism; D. Thomson. `In No Recognizable Way': The Tempest; M. Fortier. `My Real Smash': Elenctic Negation in Henry James's The Ambassadors; A. Furlani. `Where Dream Used to Collide with its Reality': the Apocalyptic Space of Negation in García Lorca's Poet in New York; M.J. Nandorfy. Part II: Nothing Doing and Nihilism. Nothing Doing: the Repudiation of Action in Beckett's More Pricks than Kicks; H. Vandervlist. The Shadow Life: Negation, Nihilism, and Insanity in Thomas Bernhard's Correction; B. Murphy. Part III: Engendering Negation. Beyond Negation: Paradoxical Affirmation in Whitman's Third Edition; H.J. Levine. Forster's Ghosts: A Passage to India and the Emptying of Narrative; J. Scherer Herz. Putting on the Feminine: Gender and Negativity in Frankenstein and The Handmaid's Tale; V. Hollinger. Part IV: Theory, Practice, and Denegation. Negation and the Evil Eye: a Reading of Camera Lucida; J. Blais. `Theres More Nothing to Say': Unspeaking Douglas Barbour's Story for a Saskatchewan Night; C. Diehl-Jones. Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: de Man, Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism; D.L. Clark. Derrida and Dogen: Denegation and the Liberation of Discriminating Thought; T.A. Foshay. Index.