03921nam 2200661Ia 450 991096963060332120240417035959.097807914917370791491730(CKB)111056486599098(OCoLC)50321483(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587228(SSID)ssj0000109471(PQKBManifestationID)11127703(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109471(PQKBWorkID)10059238(PQKB)10308618(MdBmJHUP)muse12798(Au-PeEL)EBL3408029(CaPaEBR)ebr10587228(DE-B1597)683021(DE-B1597)9780791491737(MiAaPQ)EBC3408029(Perlego)2673865(EXLCZ)9911105648659909820000404d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBeautiful chaos chaos theory and metachaotics in recent American fiction /Gordon E. Slethaug1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20001 online resource (241 p.) The SUNY series in postmodern cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791447420 0791447421 9780791447413 0791447413 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Dynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model,and Metachaotics -- Orderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression -- Entropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow -- Turbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic -- Energy, Noise, and Information -- Juxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals -- Iteration -- Strange Attractors -- Synoptic Study: “The Coded Dots of Life” -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexBeautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also—and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction—through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory.Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors.SUNY series in postmodern culture.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismChaotic behavior in systems in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.813/.5409384Slethaug Gordon1618312MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910969630603321Beautiful chaos4363409UNINA