Slethaug Beautiful Chaos

Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9173-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Postmodern Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slethaug, Gordon E.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
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
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon E. Slethaug is Chairman, Program in American Studies, at the University of Hong Kong, and author of The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction.