Unexpected

Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

AvMark Currie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of SurpriseMark CurrieExplores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and lifeFocusing 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 future that is already complete, are guiding ideas for new understandings of the reading process. It also points beyond that to some of the key temporal concepts of our epoch, of unpredictability, the event, the untimely and the messianic.The Unexpected is an important intervention in narratology and a striking general argument about the cultural significance of surprise. The enquiry is developed by a range of new readings in philosophy and theory, as well as of Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-01-17
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frontiers of Theory
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748676293

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Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous publications include Difference (Routledge, 2004), Postmodern Narrative Theory (Palgrave, 2nd edition, 2011) and Metafiction (Longman 1995).

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A fascinating and original study of the concept of the future… A new theoretical approach to the concept of the future, the unexpected and surprise.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Preface , What Lies Ahead; PART 1, Surprise and Narrative Theory; Chapter 1, A Flow of Unforeseeable Novelty; Chapter 2, Narratological Approaches to the Unforeseeable; PART 2; The Unpredictable and the Future Anterior; Chapter 3, Prediction and the Age of the Unknowable; Chapter 4, What Will Have Happened: Writing and the Future Perfect; Chapter 5, The Untimely and the Messianic; PART 3; Time Flow and the Reading Process; Chapter 6, Narrative Modality: Probability, Possibility and the Passage of Time; Chapter 7, Temporal Perspective: Narrative Futurity and the Distribution of Knowledge; PART 4; The Unforeseeable in Fictional Form; Chapter 8, Maximum Peripeteia: The Reversal of Fortune and the Rhetoric of Temporal Doubling; Chapter 9, Freedom and the Inescapable Future; Chapter 10, The Philosophy of Grammar; Bibliography.