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
Autor principal: Conte, Joseph M. (Joseph Mark), 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and science.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Postmodernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Litterature et sciences > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Chaos dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Literature and science > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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