LEADER 04215nam 22006971c 450 001 9910828578403321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-4230-4 010 $a1-282-65501-9 010 $a9786612655012 010 $a1-4411-0971-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472542304 035 $a(CKB)2670000000032701 035 $a(EBL)554636 035 $a(OCoLC)650305527 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413774 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12121399 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413774 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10384288 035 $a(PQKB)10316965 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC554636 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL554636 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400845 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL265501 035 $a(OCoLC)893334857 035 $a(OCoLC)895073113 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255822 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000032701 100 $a20140929d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChance and the modern British novel $efrom Henry Green to Iris Murdoch $fJulia Jordan 205 $aPbk. edition. 210 1$aLondon $aNew York $cContinuum $d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (186 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum literary studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-1014-3 311 $a1-4411-2531-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [152]-168) and index 327 $aA 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 Murdoch 327 $aAcknowledgements -- 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 330 8 $aChance, and its representation in literature, has a long and problematic history. It is a vital aspect of the way we experience the world, and yet its function is frequently marginalised and downplayed.  Offering a new reading of the development of the novel during the mid-twentieth century, Jordan argues that this simple novelistic paradox became more pressing during a period in which chance became a cultural, scientific and literary preoccupation - through scientific developments such as quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, the influence of existential philosophy, the growth of gambling, and the uncertainty provoked by the Second World War. In tracing the novel's representation of chance during this crucial period, we see both the development of the novel, and draw wider conclusions about the relationship between narrative and the contingent, the arbitrary and the uncertain. While the novel had historically rejected, marginalised or undermined chance, during this period it becomes a creative and welcome co-contributor to the novel's development, as writers such as Samuel Beckett, B.S. Johnson, Henry Green and Iris Murdoch show. 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $2Literary studies: general 606 $aChance in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChance in literature. 676 $a823/.91409 700 $aJordan$b Julia$cDr,$01667522 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828578403321 996 $aChance and the modern British novel$94027416 997 $aUNINA