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Literature and contingency

Literature and contingency

Material type
단행본
Personal Author
Lupton, Christina, editor. Meiner, Carsten, editor.
Corporate Author
University of Warwick, host institution.
Title Statement
Literature and contingency / edited by Christina Lupton and Carsten Meiner.
Publication, Distribution, etc
London ;   New York :   Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,   2020.  
Physical Medium
x, 175 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
9780367661496 0367661497
General Note
First issued in papeback 2020.  
"The chapters in this book were originally published in Textual practice, volume 32, issue 3 (April 2018)"-- P. vii.  
"The collection of essays in this volume spring from a two-day workshop we ran through the University of Warwick in the summer of 2016 ... we assembled in Venice"-- P. 1.  
Content Notes
Introduction : Literature and contingency / Christina Lupton -- 'L'essentiel, c'est la contingence' : how literature does and does not cope with contingency / Christian Benne -- Accidental gods : figures of contingency in the enlightenment fable / Lynn Festa -- Contingency in philosophy and history, 1650-1800 / Sean Silver -- War atmospheres / Anders Engberg-Pedersen -- Contingency in/of the text : Aristotle, Hardy, Perec / Martin Ryle -- 'Without you, I am nothing' : on the counterfactual imagination in Emma / Emily Rohrbach -- The moment of truth : Proust, Barthes, and the contingency of old age / Elizabeth Barry -- Luck stories : stress-testing contingency and agency at the margins of post-war American literature / Robert S.C. Gordon -- Poetics of contingency / Gillian White.
Bibliography, Etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
Criticism. Contingency (Philosophy). Contingency (Philosophy) in literature.
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Contents information

Table of Contents

Introduction: Literature and Contingency 1. ''L''essentiel, c''est la contingence'': how literature does and does not cope with contingency 2. Accidental gods: figures of contingency in the enlightenment fable 3. Contingency in philosophy and history, 1650-1800 4. War atmospheres 5. Contingency in/of the text: Aristotle, Hardy, Perec 6. ''Without you, I am nothing'': on the counterfactual imagination in Emma 7. The moment of truth: Proust, Barthes, and the contingency of old age 8. Luck stories: stress-testing contingency and agency at the margins of post-war American literature 9. Poetics of contingency

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