| Description |
1 online resource (221 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Ser |
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Routledge studies in contemporary literature.
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| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
David Wylot is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Accidents in literature.
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English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Time in literature.
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Contingency (Philosophy) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Time in literature
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Contingency (Philosophy) in literature
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Accidents in literature
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American fiction
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English fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000763041 |
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1000763048 |
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9781003007968 |
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1003007961 |
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9781000763188 |
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1000763188 |
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9781000763324 |
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1000763323 |
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