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The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise (The Frontiers of Theory)
Mark Currie
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Hardcover. Asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what can have been. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
This is a critical and philosophical investigation into the unforeseeable and the surprising in narrative and life. This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. This relation between the present and the future perfect offers a grammatical formula quite different from our default notions of narrative as recollection or recapitulation. It promises new understandings of the reading process within the strange ... Read more
This is a critical and philosophical investigation into the unforeseeable and the surprising in narrative and life. This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. This relation between the present and the future perfect offers a grammatical formula quite different from our default notions of narrative as recollection or recapitulation. It promises new understandings of the reading process within the strange ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Frontiers of Theory
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748676293
SKU
V9780748676293
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About Mark Currie
Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London.
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