Unlikely stories: causality and the nature of modern narrative
Unlikely Stories is the first book-length study of the full range of causal issues in narrative, and explores the neglected question of just what brings about events in a fictional text. This book focuses on causality as a foundational element of all narratives, and as a distinguishing feature of ma...
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Zusammenfassung: | Unlikely Stories is the first book-length study of the full range of causal issues in narrative, and explores the neglected question of just what brings about events in a fictional text. This book focuses on causality as a foundational element of all narratives, and as a distinguishing feature of many of the most compelling works of distinctively modern fiction and drama. Richardson draws on a wide range of literary texts: seminal ancient and early modern works, the classics of high modernism, and numerous avant-garde and postmodern pieces, as well as narratives by recent postcolonial and U.S. ethnic authors This study brings together a number of related critical issues, including the causal laws that attempt to govern fictional worlds, the reader's implication in the causal dilemmas that confront major characters, and the philosophical and ideological ascriptions of cause that are variously embodied, interrogated, or parodied. One of the most significant features of this study is its disclosure of just how fundamental and widespread causal issues are in complex narratives - and how insistently they are thematized in twentieth-century works |
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adam_text | Titel: Unlikely stories
Autor: Richardson, Brian
Jahr: 1997
Contents
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 13
Part One: Theory
1. Philosophical Systems, Fictional Worlds, and
Ideological Contestations 35
2. A Poetics of Probability: Systems of Causation
within Fictional Worlds 61
3. Temporal Sequence, Causal Connection, and
the Nature of Narrative: Disjunction and
Convergence in Mrs. Dalloway and Pinter s
Landscape 89
Part Two: Fabricating Destiny in
Modern and Postmodern Narrative
4. Modernism s Unlikely Stories: Necessity,
Chance, and Death in Nostromo, Light in
August, and Invisible Man 111
5. Molloy and the Limits of Causality:
Ontological Skepticism, Narrative
Transgression, and Metafictional Paradox 128
6. Forgotten Causes: Non-Western Beliefs and
Metaphysical Contestation in Modern Asian,
Postcolonial, and U.S. Ethnic Narratives 139
7. Plotting against Probability: Tom Stoppard,
Bharati Mukherjee, Angela Carter, and the
Structure of Coincidence in Postmodern
Narrative 157
Contents
Conclusion: Language, Interpretation, and
Causality in Twentieth-Century Narrative 182
Notes 187
Works Cited 200
Index 215
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