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But  what do novels give us when our own lives diverge  from the usual narrative paths?   Christina is a professor used to examining stories  with a critical eye; until one day in middle age she  finds herself falling in love and leaving her marriage  for a romance with another woman. This involves  a familiar enough tale, but when her new partner  suffers a stroke, Tina begins to reflect on the sorts of  love that novels rarely capture.   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Poststructuralist and Marxist approaches to literature celebrate the consciousness of writing and economic production as belonging to revolutionary understandings of the world, but authors of the period under Lupton's gaze expose the facts of mediation without being revolutionary. On the contrary, their explication of economic and material processes shores up their claim to material autonomy and economic success. Lupton uses media theory and close reading to suggest the desire of eighteenth-century readers to attribute sentience to technologies and objects that entertain them.  Rather than a historical study of print technology, Knowing Books offers a humanist interpretation of the will to cede agency to media. 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The defining feature of contingency lies in the suggestion that things that have already happened might have been otherwise. Central to late twentieth century European critical and sociological thinking, that argument is at the centre of this volume. The contributors to this volume explore subjects including how literature, philosophy and history all cope with contingency; the existence of contingency in genres as diverse as enlightenment fables, Aristotle, Hardy, Jane Austen, and post-war American literature; the contingency of old age and the poetics of contingency. As the chapters here illustrate, our efforts to understand each other involve a constant opening onto being otherwise; an enterprise in which the role of the literary critic remains key.  Of interest to scholars across a range of literary genres, this volume would also have applications for philosophy researchers exploring the metaphysics of contingency. 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