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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Tác giả chính: Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984.
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  • 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.