Description: Standard Deviations : Chance and the Modern British Novel, Hardcover by Monk, Leland, ISBN 0804721742, ISBN-13 9780804721745, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Analyzing works by George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, the author offers a new approach to narrative theory by showing how successive generations of novelists have used ever more powerful concepts of chance even though, he argues, chance is precisely what narrative cannot represent, since when it tries to do so it slips into the fated. He also relates the novelistic treatment of chance to important historical currents in the philosophical and scientific understanding of chance, and provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the representation of chance in any narrative. The author asks three central questions: Why did British novelists become intensely interested in chance in the late nineteenth century? Why and how did they thematize it in their fiction? How did the novelistic treatment of chance contribute to innovations in narrative form?
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Book Title: Standard Deviations : Chance and the Modern British Novel
Author: Monk, Leland
Language: English
