TY - BOOK ID - 80831286 TI - The unexpected PY - 2013 SN - 9780748676309 0748676309 9780748676293 0748676295 0748684468 129915476X 9780748676316 0748676317 9780748676323 0748676325 9780748684465 PB - Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press DB - UniCat KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Surprise KW - Astonishment KW - Emotions KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Philosophy. KW - Surprise in literature. KW - Time in literature. KW - Future, The, in literature. KW - Future in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80831286 AB - Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the unforeseeable, The Unexpected argues that stories help us to reconcile what we expect with what we experience. Though narrative is often understood a recapitulation of past events, the book argues that the unexpected and the future anterior, a future that is already complete, are guiding ideas for new understandings of the reading process. It also points beyond that to some of the key temporal concepts of our epoch, of unpredictability, the event, the untimely and the messianic. ER -