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29 - English Language and Literature
Queen Mary University of London
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Book title
The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN of book
0748676295
Year of publication
2013
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Number of additional authors
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Interdisciplinary
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Research group
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Double-weighted statement
The Unexpected is the first major study of surprise in literature and philosophy. It offers a critique of linguistic approaches to time in contemporary cognitive narratology by focusing on questions of tense in continental philosophy and aesthetics. It offers a detailed survey of thought about unforeseeable events in contemporary philosophy, a theoretical assessment of the cognitive function of surprise in narrative, and an original critique of grammatical description in literary studies. It draws on an unusually broad range of disciplines to offer the first theoretical account of the future anterior as a grammatical, critical and philosophical concept.
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