The Nothing That Is and the Nothing That Is Not: On Death, Dying, and Suffering - Softcover

Carter Henderson State University, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761830022 ISBN 13: 9780761830023

Publisher: University Press of America, 2004

Synopsis

The Nothing That Is and the Nothing That Is Not is the final volume in a trilogy on interpretations of otherness in the postmodern era. The first two volumes are A Do-It-Yourself Dystopia: The Americanization of Big Brother (University Press of America, 2002) and Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000 (University Press of America, 2001).

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About the Author:

Steven Carter is the author of five books of literary and cultural criticism, including Bearing Across: Studies in Literature and Science (University Press of America, 2002). In 1989 he was awarded the Schachterle Prize by the National Society for Literature and Science. In 2001 he became the only two-time winner of Italy's coveted Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize. A former Senior Fulbright Fellow at two Polish universities, Professor Carter teaches at California State University, Bakersfield.

Review:

Persuasive...exquisite...heroic... (Bridges)

If, as Umberto Eco writes and as Steven Carter seems to prove, every 'narrative world' enjoys the same dignity of existence as every other world, then why shouldn't the world of the reader, with all its silent presences, be included among Carter's narrated ones? Understood this way, Carter's book becomes a profound, potentially never-ending text that involves the personal experience of whomever reads it. 'The Nothing That Is and The Nothing That Is Not' is one of those works, very rare but very necessary, that underscores in serious fashion the human need to re-discover the precious space of our authenticity and spirituality. (Franca Gerli, from the foreword)

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0761830022
• ISBN 13: 9780761830023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150