Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction: What Lies Ahead 1
6. PART I Surprise and the Theory of Narrative
7. 1. A Flow of Unforeseeable Novelty 11
8. 2. Narratological Approaches to the Unforeseeable 34
9. PART II The Unpredictable and the Future Anterior
10. PART II The Unpredictable and the Future Anterior 55
11. 4. What Will Have Happened: Writing and the Future Perfect 67
12. 5. The Untimely and the Messianic 78
13. PART III Time Flow and the Process of Reading
14. 6. Narrative Modality: Possibility, Probability and the Passage of Time 99
15. 7. Temporal Perspective: Narrative Futurity and the Distribution of Knowledge 114
16. PART IV The Unforeseeable in Fictional Form
17. 8. Maximum Peripeteia: Reversal of Fortune and the Rhetoric of Temporal Doubling 127
18. 9. Freedom and the Inescapable Future 148
19. 10. The Philosophy of Grammar 163
20. Bibliography 176
21. Index 181