The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise (Frontiers of Theory) - Rilegato

Mark Currie

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ISBN 10: 0748676295 ISBN 13: 9780748676293

Casa editrice: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Riassunto

Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life

Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, The Unexpectedargues 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'sFingersmith, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Julian Barnes'sThe Sense of an Ending.

Key Features

An original discussion of the relation of time and narrative
An important intervention in narratology
A striking general argument about the workings of the mind
Provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

Product Description:

Book by Currie Mark

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0748676295
• ISBN 13: 9780748676293
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192