How do we talk about what we read? -- Nonlinear thinking: redefining the paradigm -- Reading on the edge of chaos: Finnegans Wake and the burden of linearity -- "And they lived happily ever after": the broken contract of fairy tales -- "I sing of arms and of a man": the post-Newtonian hero -- "A time for every purpose under heaven": the circularity of Biblical hermeneutics in the Book of Job -- Oscar Wilde and the fabrication of an Irish identity -- What is to be done? -- Appendix: the rise of nonlinear science
Summary
"Michael Gillespie employs concepts of post-Einsteinian physics as the metaphoric and dialectic foundation for an alternative method of interpreting literature ... Drawing examples that range from the Book of Job to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Gillespie demostrates how nonlinear perception vastly enhances one's ability to understand diverse forms of literature" -- Book jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-134) and index