Beautiful chaos : chaos theory and metachaotics in recent American fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Slethaug, Gordon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Series:SUNY series in postmodern culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Chaos dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Dynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model, and Metachaotics 1
  • Chapter 2 Orderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression 27
  • Chapter 3 Entropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow 45
  • Chapter 4 Turbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic 61
  • Chapter 5 Energy, Noise, and Information 79
  • Chapter 6 Juxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals 97
  • Chapter 7 Iteration 123
  • Chapter 8 Strange Attractors 147
  • Chapter 9 Synoptic Study: "The Coded Dots of Life" 163.

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