The Unexpected : Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise /

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This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. This relation bet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Currie, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Colección:The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
Temas:
Future, The, in literature.
Surprise in literature.
Time in literature.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: What Lies Ahead
  • PART I Surprise and the Theory of Narrative
  • 1. A Flow of Unforeseeable Novelty
  • 2. Narratological Approaches to the Unforeseeable
  • PART II The Unpredictable and the Future Anterior
  • PART II The Unpredictable and the Future Anterior
  • 4. What Will Have Happened: Writing and the Future Perfect
  • 5. The Untimely and the Messianic
  • PART III Time Flow and the Process of Reading
  • 6. Narrative Modality: Possibility, Probability and the Passage of Time
  • 7. Temporal Perspective: Narrative Futurity and the Distribution of Knowledge
  • PART IV The Unforeseeable in Fictional Form
  • 8. Maximum Peripeteia: Reversal of Fortune and the Rhetoric of Temporal Doubling
  • 9. Freedom and the Inescapable Future
  • 10. The Philosophy of Grammar
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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