David Wylot

Reading Contingency (eBook, ePUB)

The Accident in Contemporary Fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000763324
• Artikelnr.: 58310222

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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