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050 00 $aPR478.C38$bR53 1997
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100 1 $aRichardson, Brian,$d1953-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96075309
245 10 $aUnlikely stories :$bcausality and the nature of modern narrative /$cBrian Richardson.
260 $aNewark :$bUniversity of Delaware Press,$c1997.
263 $a9703
300 $a219 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPhilosophical Systems, Fictional Worlds, and Ideological Contestations --$g2.$tA Poetics of Probability: Systems of Causation within Fictional Worlds --$g3.$tTemporal Sequence, Causal Connection, and the Nature of Narrative: Disjunction and Convergence in Mrs. Dalloway and Pinter's Landscape --$g4.$tModernism's Unlikely Stories: Necessity, Chance, and Death in Nostromo, Light in August, and Invisible Man --$g5.$tMolloy and the Limits of Causality: Ontological Skepticism, Narrative Transgression, and Metafictional Paradox --$g6.$tForgotten Causes: Non-Western Beliefs and Metaphysical Contestation in Modern Asian, Postcolonial, and U.S. Ethnic Narratives --$g7.$tPlotting against Probability: Tom Stoppard, Bharati Mukherjee, Angela Carter, and the Structure of Coincidence in Postmodern Narrative --$tConclusion: Language, Interpretation, and Causality in Twentieth-Century Narrative.
520 $aUnlikely Stories is the first book-length study of the full range of causal issues in narrative, and explores the neglected question of just what brings about events in a fictional text. This book focuses on causality as a foundational element of all narratives, and as a distinguishing feature of many of the most compelling works of distinctively modern fiction and drama.
520 8 $aRichardson draws on a wide range of literary texts: seminal ancient and early modern works, the classics of high modernism, and numerous avant-garde and postmodern pieces, as well as narratives by recent postcolonial and U.S. ethnic authors.
520 8 $aThis study brings together a number of related critical issues, including the causal laws that attempt to govern fictional worlds, the reader's implication in the causal dilemmas that confront major characters, and the philosophical and ideological ascriptions of cause that are variously embodied, interrogated, or parodied.
520 8 $aOne of the most significant features of this study is its disclosure of just how fundamental and widespread causal issues are in complex narratives - and how insistently they are thematized in twentieth-century works.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103188
650 0 $aCausation in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002670
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101049
650 0 $aNecessity (Philosophy) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006830
650 0 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000478
650 0 $aCoincidence in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003688
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086446
650 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089833
852 00 $bglx$hPR478.C38$iR53 1997