Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- UOA27-4048
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367441418
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph provides the first comprehensive assessment of the significance of accidental events in contemporary Anglophone literature. It provides an original synthesis of contemporary literature studies, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time through detailed readings of a diverse range of twenty-first century authors, including A.M. Homes, Nicola Barker, Noah Hawley, J.M. Coetzee, Jesmyn Ward, Jennifer Egan, and Tom McCarthy. In doing so, the study underlines the significance of the accident for contemporary representations of time and develops an innovative account of the phenomenology of reading contingency built on the relationship between time, narrative, and the book.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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