orderly disorder in contemporary literature and science /
N. Katherine Hayles
xvi, 309 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304) and index
Introduction : the evolution of chaos -- Part I : something out of nothing -- Self-reflexive metaphors in Maxwell's demon and Shannon's choice : finding the passages -- The necessary gap : chaos as self in the education of Henry Adams -- From epilogue to prologue : chaos and the arrow of time -- Chaos as dialectic : Stanislaw Lem and the space of writing -- Part II : the figure in the carpet -- Strange attractors : the appeal of chaos -- Chaos and poststructuralism -- The politics of chaos : local knowledge versus global theory -- Fracturing forms : recuperation and simulation in the golden notebook -- Conclusion : chaos and culture : postmodernism(s) and the denaturing of experience
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Chaos Bound will contribute to and enliven current debates among chaos theorists, cultural critics and cultural historians, critical theorists, literary critics interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, researchers in nonlinear dynamics, and others concerned with the relation between science and culture. -- back cover
Chaos bound.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism