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The articulation of the unsayable, of negativity—that which has been excluded by what is sayable—is one of the most important areas of contemporary humanistic study. This volume brings together fifteen outstanding literary theorists and philosophers to examine ways to make the unsayable tangible.
Price: $38.00
Pages: 420
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities
Publication Date:
01 January 1987
ISBN: 9780804724838
Format: Paperback
“A theoretically sophisticated collection that provides original insights about significant texts and issues. The individual contributions are cogent enough on their own, but the grouping of these related and yet quite various essays give them an echoic relation that is mutually enhancing.” —John Paul Riquelme, Boston University
Sanford Budick is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Wolfgang Iser is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.