Unlikely stories : causality and the nature of modern narrative /

Title:

Unlikely stories : causality and the nature of modern narrative /

Author:

Richardson, Brian, 1953-

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College

Contents:

1. Philosophical Systems, Fictional Worlds, and Ideological Contestations -- 2. A Poetics of Probability: Systems of Causation within Fictional Worlds -- 3. Temporal Sequence, Causal Connection, and the Nature of Narrative: Disjunction and Convergence in Mrs. Dalloway and Pinter's Landscape -- 4. Modernism's Unlikely Stories: Necessity, Chance, and Death in Nostromo, Light in August, and Invisible Man -- 5. Molloy and the Limits of Causality: Ontological Skepticism, Narrative Transgression, and Metafictional Paradox -- 6. Forgotten Causes: Non-Western Beliefs and Metaphysical Contestation in Modern Asian, Postcolonial, and U.S. Ethnic Narratives -- 7. Plotting against Probability: Tom Stoppard, Bharati Mukherjee, Angela Carter, and the Structure of Coincidence in Postmodern Narrative -- Conclusion: Language, Interpretation, and Causality in Twentieth-Century Narrative.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
PR478.C38 R53 1997 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for VM420 -1: Structural Script Analysis (Visual and Media Arts: Ryan)