Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781032239521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

David Wylot

Opis

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in 21st century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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