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The unexpected : narrative temporality and the philosophy of surprise /

"Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, The Unexpected argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. Though narrative is often understood a recapitulation of past events, the book argues that the unexpected and the future anterior, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Currie, Mark, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Colección:Frontiers of theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: What lies ahead
  • Part I. Surprise and the theory of narrative. A flow of unforeseeable novelty ; Narratological approaches to the unforeseeable
  • Part II. The unpredictable and the future anterior. Prediction and the age of the unknowable ; What will have happened: writing and the future perfect ; The untimely and the messianic
  • Part III. Time flow and the process of reading. Narrative modality: Possibility, probability and the passage of time ; Temporal perspective: narrative futurity and the distribution of knowledge
  • Part IV. The unforeseeable in fictional form. Maximum peripeteia: reversal of fortune and the rhetoric of temporal doubling ; Freedom and the inescapable future ; The philosophy of grammar.