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...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1984.
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Table des matières:
- 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
- References Cited
- Index.