02738oam 22005294a 450 991027235450332120220916185256.00-8014-1742-21-5017-2297-210.7591/9781501722974(CKB)4340000000258191(MiAaPQ)EBC5317497(OCoLC)1057676723(MdBmJHUP)muse67528(WaSeSS)IndRDA00120744(DE-B1597)496476(OCoLC)1028956772(DE-B1597)9781501722974(EXLCZ)99434000000025819119840613d1984 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Cosmic WebScientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century /N. Katherine HaylesIthaca :Cornell University Press,1984.©1984.1 online resource (208 pages)Includes index.1-5017-2793-1 0-8014-9290-4 Bibliography: p. 199-204.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --Part I. Mathematical and Scientific Models --Chapter I. Spinning The Web --Part II. Literary Strategies --Chapter 2. Drawn to the Web --3. Evasion: The Field of the Unconscious in D. H. Lawrence --Chapter 4. Ambivalence --5. Subversion --Chapter 6. Caught In The Web Cosmology and the Point of (No) Return in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow --References Cited --IndexFrom the central concept of the field-which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field- have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to establish the scope of the field concept and to assess its importance for contemporary thought. She then explores the literary strategies that are attributable directly or indirectly to the new paradigm; among the texts at which she looks closely are Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Nabokov's Ada, D. H. Lawrence's early novels and essays, Borges's fiction, and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.Literature and scienceLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and science.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.809/.93356Hayles N. Katherine1943-572243MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910272354503321The Cosmic Web2430084UNINA