Design and debris : a chaotics of postmodern American fiction /

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Reading eight major contemporary authors through the lens of chaos theory, Conte offers new and original interpretations of works that have been the subject of much critical debate. Design and Debris discusses the relationship between order and disorder in the works of John Hawkes, Harry Mathews, Jo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conte, Joseph M. (Joseph Mark), 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002.
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
Literature and science > United States > History > 20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Chaos dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Postmodernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Literature and science
Postmodernism (Literature)
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Being in uncertainties : orderly disorder in postmodern American fiction
  • Design and debris : John Hawkes's Travesty, chaos theory, and the swerve
  • Discipline and anarchy : disrupted codes in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless
  • American oulipo : proceduralism in the novels of Gilbert Sorrentino, Harry Mathews, and John Barth
  • Noise and signal : information theory in Don DeLillo's White noise
  • The perfect game : dynamic equilibrium and the bifurcation point in Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association
  • The excluded middle : complexity in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow
  • The superabundance of cyberspace : postmodern fiction in the information age.

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