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Offering a new approach to narrative theory by arguing that chance is the unrepresentable Other of narrative, this book traces the theme of chance in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Joseph Conrad's Chance, and James Joyce's Ulysses, and relates the novelistic treatment of chance to philosophical and scientific thinking.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780804721745, 978-0804721745
      ISBN10: 0804721742
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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      Book Synopsis
      Offering a new approach to narrative theory by arguing that chance is the unrepresentable Other of narrative, this book traces the theme of chance in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Joseph Conrad's Chance, and James Joyce's Ulysses, and relates the novelistic treatment of chance to philosophical and scientific thinking.

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