Reading contingency: the accident in contemporary fiction

"Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction is an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental. A synthesis...

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Main Author: Wylot, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge 2020
Series:Routledge studies in contemporary literature
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction is an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental. A synthesis of literary and cultural analysis, narratology, critical theories of time and the philosophy of contingency, the book explores the accident's imagination of contemporary time and the relationship between reading and living in novels by writers including A.M. Homes, Nicola Barker, Noah Hawley, J.M. Coetzee, J.G. Ballard, Jennifer Egan, and Tom McCarthy"--
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Physical Description:1 online resource (pages cm.)
ISBN:9781003007968
1003007961
9781000763041
1000763048

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