Chaos Bound : Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science.

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N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. Sh...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hayles, N. Katherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Temas:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Chaos dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chaos Bound; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: The Evolution of Chaos; PART I SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING; 2 Self-reflexive Metaphors in Maxwellâ#x80;#x99;s Demon and Shannonâ#x80;#x99;s Choice: Finding the Passages; 3 The Necessary Gap: Chaos as Self in The Education of Henry Adams; 4 From Epilogue to Prologue: Chaos and the Arrow of Time; 5 Chaos as Dialectic: Stanislaw Lem and the Space of Writing; PART II THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET; 6 Strange Attractors: The Appeal of Chaos; 7 Chaos and Poststructuralism; 8 The Politics of Chaos: Local Knowledge versus Global Theory.
  • 9 Fracturing Forms: Recuperation and Simulation in The Golden Notebook10 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture: Postmodernism(s) and the Denaturing of Experience; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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