Reading Contingency

The Accident in Contemporary Fiction
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-44141-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 158 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wylot, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Accident and Contingency

Part 1: Time

Chapter 1. Forwards: Accident, Event, Picaresque

Chapter 2. Backwards: Accident, Coincidence, Teleological Retrospection

Part 2: Narrative

Chapter 3. Forwards and Backwards: Reading Contingency

Part 3: Accident Narratives

Chapter 4. Radical Contingency

Chapter 5. Unassimilable Contingency

Coda

Über Autor(innen)

David Wylot is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds.