Reading Contingency
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20th century fiction
20th century literature
A.M. Homes
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accident narratives in fiction
american fiction
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Backwards Causation
Before the Fall
British American novels
british fiction
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Causal Epistemology
Causal Interpretation
Coincidence
contemporary american fiction
contemporary british fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Literary Studies
contingent effect
Contingent Occurrence
Crash
critical theory
critical time studies
cultural analysis
Dice Throw
Epistemological Domain
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fiction studies
forgetting
Future's Foreclosure
Future’s Foreclosure
Futurity
Harry's Story
Harry’s Story
Homes's novels
imagination
Interpretative Dynamics
J.G. Ballard
J.M. Coetzee
Jennifer Egan
literary theory
Look at Me
May We Be Forgiven
Medium Specific Features
memory
modern american fiction
modern british fiction
modern fiction
Narrative Accident
Narrative Comprehension
narrative temporality
narrative theory
narratology
Nicola Barker
Noah Hawley
Paul Haggis
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periodization
Peter's Murder
Peter’s Murder
phenomenology of reading
philosophy
philosophy of chance
philosophy of contingency
Post-traumatic Subject
Postmodern Cultural Theory
postmodern fiction
Radical Contingency
Remainder
Ricoeur's Account
Ricoeur’s Account
Slow Man
Something Happened
Teleological Retrospection
Temporal Experience
Temporal Inertia
temporality
time
Tom McCarthy
Traumatic Accident
twenty-first-century American fiction
twenty-first-century British fiction
Unforeseeable Future
Product details
- ISBN 9780367441418
- Weight: 820g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
David Wylot is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds.
