04214nam 22006971c 450 991045856150332120200115203623.01-4725-4230-41-282-65501-997866126550121-4411-0971-410.5040/9781472542304(CKB)2670000000032701(EBL)554636(OCoLC)650305527(SSID)ssj0000413774(PQKBManifestationID)12121399(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413774(PQKBWorkID)10384288(PQKB)10316965(MiAaPQ)EBC554636(Au-PeEL)EBL554636(CaPaEBR)ebr10400845(CaONFJC)MIL265501(OCoLC)893334857(OCoLC)895073113(UtOrBLW)bpp09255822(EXLCZ)99267000000003270120140929d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChance and the modern British novel from Henry Green to Iris Murdoch Julia JordanPbk. edition.London New York Continuum 2011.1 online resource (186 p.)Continuum literary studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-1014-3 1-4411-2531-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages [152]-168) and indexA fine thing: a history of chance -- Swear to tell me everything that goes wrong: Henry Green and free will in the novel -- I admire the will to welcome everything, the stupid violence of chance: Samuel Beckett and the representation of possibility -- Let's celebrate the accidental: B.S. Johnson, the aleatory and the radical generation -- The incomprehensible operation of grace: mess, contingency, and the example of Iris MurdochAcknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A Fine Thing: A History of Chance -- 2. 'Swear to tell me everything that goes wrong': Henry Green and Free Will in the Novel -- 3. 'I admire the will to welcome everything - the stupid violence of chance': Samuel Beckett and the Representation of Possibility -- 4. 'Let's Celebrate the Accidental': B.S. Johnson, the Aleatory and the Radical Generation. -- 5. 'The incomprehensible operation of grace': Mess, Contingency, and the Example of Iris Murdoch.  -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index 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. Continuum literary studies.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterary studies: generalChance in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Chance in literature.823/.91409Jordan JuliaDr,870660UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910458561503321Chance and the modern British novel1943645UNINA00869nam a2200253 i 450099100139604970753620020502191802.0931027s1980 it ||| | ita 8805037184b11506684-39ule_instPRUMB60197ExLDip. di SSSC - SociologiaitaLewis, David32348Per essere genitori dotati /David LewisTorino :Società editrice internazionale,1980254 p. ;21 cm.Collana educare oggiPedagogia.b1150668401-03-1701-07-02991001396049707536LE021 NEBISA51LE021N-10742le021-E0.00-l- 00000.i1170074901-07-02Per essere genitori dotati813771UNISALENTOle02101-01-93ma -itait 01