The unexpected : narrative temporality and the philosophy of surprise / Mark Currie.

"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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author:	Currie, Mark, 1962- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Series:	Frontiers of theory.
Subjects:	Narration (Rhetoric) Time in literature. Future, The, in literature. Surprise in literature. Future, The, in literature Surprise in literature Time in literature Literary criticism