Literature and contingency. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christina Lupton, Carsten Meiner.
• Editors: Lupton, Christina; Meiner, Carsten
• Contents: Introduction: Literature and Contingency Christina Lupton 1. ‘L’essentiel, c’est la contingence’: how literature does and does not cope with contingency Christian Benne 2. Accidental gods: figures of contingency in the enlightenment fable Lynn Festa 3. Contingency in philosophy and history, 1650-1800 Sean Silver 4. War atmospheres Anders Engberg-Pedersen 5. Contingency in/of the text: Aristotle, Hardy, Perec Martin Ryle 6. ‘Without you, I am nothing’: on the counterfactual imagination in Emma Emily Rohrbach 7. The moment of truth: Proust, Barthes, and the contingency of old age Elizabeth Barry 8. Luck stories: stress-testing contingency and agency at the margins of post-war American literature Robert S. C. Gordon 9. Poetics of contingency Gillian White
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 801.95; Criticism; Contingency (Philosophy); Contingency (Philosophy) in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429575129
• Related ISBNs: 9780429577239; 9780429573019; 9780429201004
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