Textual Practice, Volume 32, Issue 3 (2018)

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Literature and Contingency

Turning Point

Critique and anti-critique
Ronan McDonald
Pages: 365-374
Published online: 28 Mar 2018
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Introduction

Introduction
Literature and contingency
Christina Lupton
Pages: 375-379
Published online: 28 Mar 2018
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‘L’essentiel, c’est la contingence’: how literature does and does not cope with contingency
Christian Benne
Pages: 381-401
Published online: 28 Feb 2018
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Accidental gods: figures of contingency in the enlightenment fable
Lynn Festa
Pages: 403-417
Published online: 02 Mar 2018
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Contingency in philosophy and history, 1650–1800
Sean Silver
Pages: 419-436
Published online: 02 Mar 2018
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War atmospheres
Anders Engberg-Pedersen
Pages: 437-453
Published online: 23 Feb 2018
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Contingency in/of the text: Aristotle, Hardy, Perec
Martin Ryle
Pages: 455-469
Published online: 25 Feb 2018
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‘Without you, I am nothing’: on the counterfactual imagination in Emma
Emily Rohrbach
Pages: 471-488
Published online: 27 Feb 2018
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The moment of truth: Proust, Barthes, and the contingency of old age
Elizabeth Barry
Pages: 489-508
Published online: 02 Mar 2018
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Luck stories: stress-testing contingency and agency at the margins of post-war American literature
Robert S. C. Gordon
Pages: 509-527
Published online: 03 Mar 2018
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Poetics of contingency
Gillian White
Pages: 529-550
Published online: 12 Mar 2018
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Review Essay

Essay
Desire: a memoir
Andrew Gibson
Pages: 551-559
Published online: 19 Mar 2018
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Humankind: solidarity with nonhuman people
Gabriel Chin
Pages: 561-564
Published online: 04 Jan 2018
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The imagery of writing in the early works of Paul Auster: from stones to books
Andrea Pitozzi
Pages: 564-568
Published online: 22 Jan 2018
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Mere reading: the poetics of wonder in modern American novels
Aanchal Vij
Pages: 568-572
Published online: 20 Jan 2018
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The Iraqi novel: key writers, key texts
Farah Alrajeh
Pages: 572-576
Published online: 29 Jan 2018
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