The cosmic web : scientific field models and literary strategies in the twentieth century /

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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 seeks...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences.
Literature and science
Literature, Modern
Letterkunde.
Wetenschap.
Veldentheorie.
Literature > Special themes: Science, 1900-1984 - Critical studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • pt. I. Mathematical and scientific model
  • ch. 1. Spinning the web : representative field theories and their implications
  • pt. II. Literary strategies
  • ch. 2. Drawn to the web : the quality of rhetoric in Pirsig's Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
  • ch. 3. Evasion : the field of the unconscious in D.H. Lawrence
  • ch. 4. Ambivalence : symmetry, asymmetry, and the physics of time reversal in Nabokov's Ada
  • ch. 5. Subversion : infinite series and transfinite numbers in Borges's fictions
  • ch. 6. Caught in the web : cosmology and the point of (no) return in Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow.

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