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Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature) - Softcover

Book 36 of 64: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Wylot, David

 
9781032239521: Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1032239522 ISBN 13: 9781032239521
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental. A synthesis of literary and cultural analysis, narratology, critical theories of time and the philosophy of contingency, the book explores the accident’s imagination of contemporary time and the relationship between reading and living in novels by writers including A.M. Homes, Nicola Barker, Noah Hawley, J.M. Coetzee, J.G. Ballard, Jesmyn Ward, Jennifer Egan, and Tom McCarthy.

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About the Author

David Wylot is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032239522
ISBN 13 
9781032239521
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
220