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Chaos and order : complex dynamics in literature and science / edited by N. Katherine Hayles.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New practices of inquiryPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991Description: vii, 308 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226321444
  • 9780226321448
  • 0226321436
  • 9780226321431
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809
LOC classification:
  • PN771. C44 1991
Contents:
1. Introduction: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science / N. Katherine Hayles -- 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 -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science / N. Katherine Hayles -- 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 -- 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.

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