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Chaos Bound : Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science /

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N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. Sh...

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Autor principal: Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990.
Col·lecció:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Matèries:
Letterkunde.
Natuurkunde.
Chaos.
Literature, Modern.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
SCIENCE > Chaotic Behavior in Systems.
Chaos dans la litterature.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Taula de continguts:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction: The Evolution of Chaos
  • PART I SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING
  • 2 Self-reflexive Metaphors in Maxwell's Demon and Shannon's Choice: Finding the Passages
  • 3 The Necessary Gap: Chaos as Self in The Education of Henry Adams
  • 4 From Epilogue to Prologue: Chaos and the Arrow of Time
  • 5 Chaos as Dialectic: Stanislaw Lem and the Space of Writing
  • PART II THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET
  • 6 Strange Attractors: The Appeal of Chaos
  • 7 Chaos and Poststructuralism
  • 8 The Politics of Chaos: Local Knowledge versus Global Theory
  • 9 Fracturing Forms: Recuperation and Simulation in The Golden Notebook
  • 10 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture: Postmodernism(s) and the Denaturing of Experience
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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