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The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

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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 unpredictability, the event, the untimely and the ...

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The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise 2015, Edinburgh University Press

ISBN-13: 9781474402354

Trade paperback

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise 2013, Edinburgh University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780748676293

Hardcover