Reading Contingency

<p>In <i>Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction</i> David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction the phenomenology of reading and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental. A synthesis of literary and cultural analysis narratology critical theories of time and the philosophy of contingency the book explores the accident’s imagination of contemporary time and the relationship between reading and living in novels by writers including A.M. Homes Nicola Barker Noah Hawley J.M. Coetzee J.G. Ballard Jesmyn Ward Jennifer Egan and Tom McCarthy.</p>