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 of li...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2020].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;
41. |
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| 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: | viii, 211 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-206) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367441418 0367441411 9781032239521 032239521 |