The Unexpected Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise |
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| Author:
| Currie, Mark |
| Series title: | The Frontiers of Theory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7486-7629-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $168.00 |
Book Description:
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Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, The Unexpected argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. Though narrative is often understood a recapitulation of past events, the book argues that the unexpected and the future anterior, a future that is already complete, are guiding ideas for new understandings of the reading process. It also points beyond that to some of the key temporal concepts of our epoch, of...
More DescriptionFocusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, The Unexpected argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. Though narrative is often understood a recapitulation of past events, the book argues that the unexpected and the future anterior, a future that is already complete, are guiding ideas for new understandings of the reading process. It also points beyond that to some of the key temporal concepts of our epoch, of unpredictability, the event, the untimely and the messianic.