Reading Contingency : the Accident in Contemporary Fiction
In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly unders...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Routledge,
2019
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| Series: | Routledge studies in contemporary literature
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| Summary: | In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, 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, Jesmyn Ward, Jennifer Egan, and Tom McCarthy |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (221 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1000763048 1000763188 1000763323 1003007961 9781000763041 9781000763188 9781000763324 9781003007968 |