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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Frontiers of theory.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.