| Description |
vii, 308 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New practices of inquiry |
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New practices of inquiry.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Chaos and order : complex dynamics in literature and science / edited by N. Katherine Hayles. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- 1 Introduction: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science -- N. Katherine Hayles -- I Chaos More Than Metaphor -- 2 Literature, Complexity, Interdisciplinary -- William Paulson -- 3 Fictions as Dissipative Structures: Prigogine's Theory and Postmodernism's Roadshow -- David Porush -- 4 The Chaos of Metafiction -- Peter Stoicheff -- 5 The Emplotment of Chaos: Instability and Narrative Order -- Kenneth J. Knoespel -- II Order: Revisioning Form -- 6 Representing Order: Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, and Theology in the Newtonian Revolution -- Robert Markley -- 7 The Authorization of Form: Ruskin and the Science of Chaos -- Sheila Emerson -- 8 Linear Stories and Circular Visions: The Decline of the Victorian Serial -- Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund -- 9 Science and the Mythopoetic Mind: The Case of H.D. -- Adalaide Morris -- III Chaos and Order: Probing the Limits -- 10 Representation and Bifurcation: Borges's Garden of Chaos Dynamics -- Thomas P. Weissert -- 11 Modeling the Chaosphere: Stanislaw Lem's Alien Communications -- Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- 12 Negentropy, Noise, and Emancipatory Thought -- Eric Charles White -- 13 Michael Serres: In Search of a Tropography -- Maria L. Assad -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism, Chaotic behavior in systems in literature, Literature and science |
| Analysis |
Literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
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Literature and science.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Hayles, Katherine, 1943-
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| LC no. |
90020264 |
| ISBN |
0226321436 (alk. paper) |
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0226321444 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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