LEADER 03921nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910969630603321 005 20240417035959.0 010 $a9780791491737 010 $a0791491730 035 $a(CKB)111056486599098 035 $a(OCoLC)50321483 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587228 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000109471 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11127703 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109471 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10059238 035 $a(PQKB)10308618 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12798 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408029 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10587228 035 $a(DE-B1597)683021 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791491737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408029 035 $a(Perlego)2673865 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486599098 100 $a20000404d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeautiful chaos $echaos theory and metachaotics in recent American fiction /$fGordon E. Slethaug 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aThe SUNY series in postmodern culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791447420 311 08$a0791447421 311 08$a9780791447413 311 08$a0791447413 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tDynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model,and Metachaotics -- $tOrderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression -- $tEntropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow -- $tTurbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic -- $tEnergy, Noise, and Information -- $tJuxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals -- $tIteration -- $tStrange Attractors -- $tSynoptic Study: ?The Coded Dots of Life? -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aBeautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also?and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction?through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory.Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors. 410 0$aSUNY series in postmodern culture. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChaotic behavior in systems in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChaotic behavior in systems in literature. 676 $a813/.5409384 700 $aSlethaug$b Gordon$01618312 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969630603321 996 $aBeautiful chaos$94363409 997 $aUNINA