Reading Contingency

The Accident in Contemporary Fiction
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-23952-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 329 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wylot, David

Fachgebiete

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

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.