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Chance and the modern British novel : from Henry Green to Iris Murdoch /
Chance, and its representation in literature, has a long and problematic history. It is a vital aspect of the way we experience the world, and yet its function is frequently marginalised and downplayed. Offering a new reading of the development of the novel during the mid-twentieth century, Jordan a...
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One: A Fine Thing: A History of Chance; Chapter Two: 'Swear to tell me everything that goes wrong': Henry Green and Free Will in the Novel; Chapter Three: 'I admire the will to welcome everything -- the stupid violence of chance': Samuel Beckett and the Representation of Possibility; Chapter Four: 'Let's Celebrate the Accidental': B.S. Johnson, the Aleatory and the Radical Generation; Chapter Five: 'The incomprehensible operation of grace': Mess, Contingency and the Example of Iris Murdoch; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Chance, and its representation in literature, has a long and problematic history. It is a vital aspect of the way we experience the world, and yet its function is frequently marginalised and downplayed. Offering a new reading of the development of the novel during the mid-twentieth century, Jordan argues that this simple novelistic paradox became more pressing during a period in which chance became a cultural, scientific and literary preoccupation - through scientific developments such as quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, the influence of existential philosophy, the growth of ga. | ||
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