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02857aam a2200349Ia 4500 001 003B0A48E2DD11E284C630D7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130702010114 008 130207s2013 stk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0748676295 (hbk.) 020 $a 9780748676293 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)820779690 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d YNK $d BWX $d OCLCO $d OIP $d MUU $d SILO 050 4 $a PE1425 $b .C87 2013 082 04 $a 809.93384 $2 23 100 1 $a Currie, Mark, $d 1962- 245 14 $a The unexpected : $b narrative temporality and the philosophy of surprise / $c Mark Currie. 260 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c c2013. 300 $a vii, 184 p. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The frontiers of theory 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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 logic of a future that is already complete. It also points beyond that to some of the key temporal concepts of our epoch: prediction and unpredictability, uncertainty, the event, the untimely and the messianic. The argument is worked out in new readings of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending."--Publisher's website. 505 0 $a Introduction: What lies ahead -- Part 1: Surprise and the theory of narrative. A flow of unforeseeable novelty ; Narratological approaches to the unforeseeable. -- Part 2: The unpredictable and the future anterior. Prediction and the age of the unknowable ; What will have happened: writing and the future perfect ; The untimely and the messianic. -- Part 3 :Time flow and the process of reading. Narrative modality: Possibility, probability and the passage of time ; Temporal perspective: narrative futurity and the distribution of knowledge. -- Part 4: The unforeseeable in fictional form. Maximum peripeteia: reversal of fortune and the rhetoric of temporal doubling ; Freedom and the inescapable future ; The philosophy of grammar. 650 0 $a Surprise in literature. 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) 650 0 $a Time in literature. 650 0 $a Future, The, in literature. 830 0 $a Frontiers of theory. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106054235.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826080143.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=003B0A48E2DD11E284C630D7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search