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The unexpected : narrative temporality and the philosophy of surprise / Mark Currie.
De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 Available online
De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currie, Mark.
- Series:
- Frontiers of theory.
- The frontiers of theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Surprise--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing 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.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Surprise and the theory of narrative
- pt. II. The unpredictable and the future anterior
- pt. III. Time flow and the process of reading
- pt. IV. The unforeseeable in fictional form.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-8446-8
- 0-7486-7630-9
- 1-299-15476-X
- OCLC:
- 828793381
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