Reading Contingency(English, Paperback, Wylot David)

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Reading Contingency(English, Paperback, Wylot David) is written by Wylot David and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1032239522 (ISBN 10) and 9781032239521 (ISBN 13).

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental. A synthesis of literary and cultural analysis, narratology, critical theories of time and the philosophy of contingency, the book explores the accident's imagination of contemporary time and the relationship between reading and living in novels by writers including A.M. Homes, Nicola Barker, Noah Hawley, J.M. Coetzee, J.G. Ballard, Jesmyn Ward, Jennifer Egan, and Tom McCarthy.