The aesthetics of chaos : nonlinear thinking and contemporary literary criticism /

"An invigorating (and convincing) challenge to the cornerstone assumptions of virtually all contemporary literary criticism ... this study lays the groundwork for a dynamic new approach to reading literature. Sure to be controversial, its fundamental right-headedness should help to open debate...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gillespie, Michael Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Criticism > History > 20th century.
Critique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism
Literatuurtheorie.
Chaos.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • How do we talk about what we read?
  • Nonlinear thinking: redefining the paradigm.
  • Reading on the edge of chaos: Finnegans wake and the burden of linearity.
  • "And they lived happily ever after": the broke contract of fairy tales.
  • "I sing of arms and of a man": the post-Newtonian hero.
  • "A time for every purpose under heaven": the circularity of biblical hermeneutics in the Book of Job.
  • Oscar Wilde and the fabrication of an Irish identity.
  • What is to be done?
  • Appendix: The rise of nonlinear science.

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