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  • Publisher:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    05 August 2013
    17 January 2013
    ISBN:
    9780748676309
    9780748676293
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
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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 messianic.

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