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The Cosmic Web : Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century.
From the central concept of the field--which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field-- have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seek...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The Cosmic Web; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Mathematical and Scientific Models; 1. Spinning the Web: Representative Field Theories and Their Implications; Part II: Literary Strategies; 2. Drawn to the Web: The Quality of Rhetoric in Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; 3. Evasion: The Field of the Unconscious in D.H. Lawrence; 4. Ambivalence: Symmetry, Asymmetry, and the Physics of Time Reversal in Nabokov's Ada; 5. Subversion: Infinite Series and Transfinite Numbers in Borges's Fictions.
- 6. Caught in the Web: Cosmology and the Point of (No) Return in Pynchon's Gravity's RainbowReferences Cited; Index.