E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Slethaug Beautiful Chaos
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9173-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction
E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9173-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Explores the way chaos theory is incorporated in the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Don DeLillo, and Michael Crichton.
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1. Dynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model, and Metachaotics
2. Orderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression
3. Entropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow
4. Turbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic
5. Energy, Noise, and Information
6. Juxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals
7. Iteration
8. Strange Attractors
9. Synoptic Study: “The Coded Dots of Life” Notes
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