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Chance and the modern British novel : from Henry Green to Iris Murdoch / Julia Jordan

Author
Jordan, Julia (Lecturer in modern English literature)
Published
London : Continuum, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 173 pages).
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English.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One: A Fine Thing: A History of Chance; Chapter Two: 'Swear to tell me everything that goes wrong': Henry Green and Free Will in the Novel; Chapter Three: 'I admire the will to welcome everything -- the stupid violence of chance': Samuel Beckett and the Representation of Possibility; Chapter Four: 'Let's Celebrate the Accidental': B.S. Johnson, the Aleatory and the Radical Generation; Chapter Five: 'The incomprehensible operation of grace': Mess, Contingency and the Example of Iris Murdoch; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Chance, and its representation in literature, has a long and problematic history. It is a vital aspect of the way we experience the world, and yet its function is frequently marginalised and downplayed. Offering a new reading of the development of the novel during the mid-twentieth century, Jordan argues that this simple novelistic paradox became more pressing during a period in which chance became a cultural, scientific and literary preoccupation - through scientific developments such as quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, the influence of existential philosophy, the growth of ga.
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9781441109712 (electronic bk.)
1441109714 (electronic bk.)
1282655019
9781282655010
9781441125316 (print)
1441125310 (print)
1472542304
9781472542304
9786612655012
6612655011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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