Literature and Contingency

ISBN-13: 9780367192037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str.

Christina Lupton

Opis

This collection features leading literary critics and explores the role of language in thinking about the ways in which the world might be otherwise, and the history of contingency as a longstanding literary concept. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Spis treści

Introduction: Literature and Contingency  1. ‘L’essentiel, c’est la contingence’: how literature does and does not cope with contingency  2. Accidental gods: figures of contingency in the enlightenment fable  3. Contingency in philosophy and history, 1650-1800  4. War atmospheres  5. Contingency in/of the text: Aristotle, Hardy, Perec  6. ‘Without you, I am nothing’: on the counterfactual imagination in Emma  7. The moment of truth: Proust, Barthes, and the contingency of old age  8. Luck stories: stress-testing contingency and agency at the margins of post-war American literature  9. Poetics of contingency