Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction

by David Wylot

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032239522
• ISBN13: 9781032239521
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"