03280nam 2200637Ia 450 991080789180332120200520144314.00-8173-8268-2(CKB)1000000000774924(EBL)454529(OCoLC)424525297(SSID)ssj0000137147(PQKBManifestationID)11150309(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000137147(PQKBWorkID)10087533(PQKB)10345983(MdBmJHUP)muse27062(Au-PeEL)EBL454529(CaPaEBR)ebr10309814(MiAaPQ)EBC454529(EXLCZ)99100000000077492420010917d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDesign and debris a chaotics of postmodern American fiction /Joseph M. Conte1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20021 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1115-7 0-8173-1114-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.Being in uncertainties : orderly disorder in postmodern American fiction -- Design and debris : John Hawkes's Travesty, chaos theory, and the swerve -- Discipline and anarchy : disrupted codes in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless -- American oulipo : proceduralism in the novels of Gilbert Sorrentino, Harry Mathews, and John Barth -- Noise and signal : information theory in Don DeLillo's White noise -- The perfect game : dynamic equilibrium and the bifurcation point in Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association -- The excluded middle : complexity in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow -- The superabundance of cyberspace : postmodern fiction in the information age. Reading eight major contemporary authors through the lens of chaos theory, Conte offers new and original interpretations of works that have been the subject of much critical debate. Design and Debris discusses the relationship between order and disorder in the works of John Hawkes, Harry Mathews, John Barth, Gilbert Sorrentino, Robert Coover, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo. In analyzing their work, Joseph Conte brings to bear a unique approach adapted from scientific thought: chaos theory. His chief concern is illuminating those works whose narrative stDesign & debrisAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismChaotic behavior in systems in literatureLiterature and scienceUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPostmodernism (Literature)United StatesAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.Literature and scienceHistoryPostmodernism (Literature)813.5409113813/.5409113Conte Joseph M(Joseph Mark),1960-1605806MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807891803321Design and debris4012780UNINA