Chapter 1 Introduction: Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality

Chapter 2 Deconstruction and Negative Meaning in Medieval Mysticism

Chapter 4 “My Real Smash”: Elenctic Negation in Henry James’s The Ambassadors

Chapter 5 “Where Dream used to Collide with its Reality”: The Apocalyptic Space of Negation in García Lorca’s Poet in New York

Chapter 6 Nothing Doing: The Repudiation of Action in Beckett’s More Pricks Than Kicks

Chapter 7 The Shadow Life: Negation, Nihilism, and Insanity in Thomas Bernhard’s Correction

Chapter 8 Beyond Negation: Paradoxical Affirmation in Whitman’s Third Edition

Chapter 9 Forster’s Ghosts: A Passage to India and the Emptying of Narrative

Chapter 10 Putting on the Feminine: Gender and Negativity in Frankenstein and the Handmaid’s Tale

Chapter 11 Negation and the Evil Eye: A Reading of Camera Lucida

Chapter 12 “Theres More Nothing to Say”: Unspeaking Douglas Barbour’s “Story for a Saskatchewan Night”

Chapter 13 Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: de Man, Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism

Chapter 14 Derrida and Dōgen: Denegation and the Liberation of Discriminating Thought