- Introduction
- I. Mutual Exclusion
- 1. Oscillation: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
- 2. Enfolding: Rereading Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001)
- II. Multiplicity
- 3. Adjacency: Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
- 4. Accounting: Interreading William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), Shirley Jackson’s “Seven Types of Ambiguity” (1943), and Elliot Perlman’s Seven Types of Ambiguity (2003)
- III. Repetition
- 5. Vacuity: Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991)
- 6. Synchronicity: Metareading Tom McCarthy’s Remainder (2005)
- 7. Conclusion: Flippancy: Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)
- Appendix 1: The Vagaries of the New Ethics
- Appendix 2: Seven Modes of Uncertainty
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Seven Modes of Uncertainty
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