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Chance and the Modern British Novel

Chance and the Modern British Novel

From Henry Green to Iris Murdoch

by Julia Jordan
Hardback
Publication Date: 05/08/2010

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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 gambling, and the uncertainty provoked by the Second World War.

In tracing the novel's representation of chance during this crucial period, we see both the development of the novel, and draw wider conclusions about the relationship between narrative and the contingent, the arbitrary and the uncertain. While the novel had historically rejected, marginalised or undermined chance, during this period it becomes a creative and welcome co-contributor to the novel's development, as writers such as Samuel Beckett, B.S. Johnson, Henry Green and Iris Murdoch show.
ISBN:
9781441125316
9781441125316
Category:
Literary studies: general
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
05-08-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x12mm
Weight:
0.44kg

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