Introduction: Accident and Contingency -- Time. Forwards: Accident, Event, Picaresque -- Backwards: Accident, Coincidence, Teleological Retrospection -- Narrative. Forwards and Backwards: Reading Contingency -- Accident Narratives. Radical Contingency -- Unassimilable Contingenc…
"Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction is an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and acciden…
"Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction is an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and acciden…