02994oam 22005174a 450 991027235480332120220916185218.01-5017-2792-30-8014-9701-91-5017-2295-610.7591/9781501722950(CKB)4340000000258187(MiAaPQ)EBC5317493(OCoLC)1031871014(MdBmJHUP)muse65414(DE-B1597)496623(OCoLC)1028953938(DE-B1597)9781501722950(EXLCZ)99434000000025818719890830d1990 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierChaos BoundOrderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science /N. Katherine HaylesIthaca, N.Y. :Cornell University Press,1990.©1990.1 online resource (309 pages)0-8014-2262-0 1-5017-2296-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-304) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Preface --1 Introduction: The Evolution of Chaos --PART I SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING --2 Self-reflexive Metaphors in Maxwell's Demon and Shannon's Choice: Finding the Passages --3 The Necessary Gap: Chaos as Self in The Education of Henry Adams --4 From Epilogue to Prologue: Chaos and the Arrow of Time --5 Chaos as Dialectic: Stanislaw Lem and the Space of Writing --PART II THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET --6 Strange Attractors: The Appeal of Chaos --7 Chaos and Poststructuralism --8 The Politics of Chaos: Local Knowledge versus Global Theory --9 Fracturing Forms: Recuperation and Simulation in The Golden Notebook --10 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture: Postmodernism(s) and the Denaturing of Experience --Selected Bibliography --IndexN. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. She examines structures and themes of disorder in The Education of Henry Adams, Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook, and works by Stanislaw Lem. Hayles shows how the writings of poststructuralist theorists including Barthes, Lyotard, Derrida, Serres, and de Man incorporate central features of chaos theory.Chaotic behavior in systems in literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismChaotic behavior in systems in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.809/.04Hayles N. Katherine1943-572243MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910272354803321Chaos Bound2436930UNINA