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635030
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Hayles, Katherine,1943-
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Chaos bound : : orderly disorder in contemporary literature and science /\ N. Katherine Hayles
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xvi, 309 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0801422620
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: 9780801422621
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: 0801497019
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: 9780801497018
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : the evolution of chaos -- Part I : something out of nothing -- Self-reflexive metaphors in Maxwell's demon and Shannon's choice : finding the passages -- The necessary gap : chaos as self in the education of Henry Adams -- From epilogue to prologue : chaos and the arrow of time -- Chaos as dialectic : Stanislaw Lem and the space of writing -- Part II : the figure in the carpet -- Strange attractors : the appeal of chaos -- Chaos and poststructuralism -- The politics of chaos : local knowledge versus global theory -- Fracturing forms : recuperation and simulation in the golden notebook -- Conclusion : chaos and culture : postmodernism(s) and the denaturing of experience
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Chaos Bound will contribute to and enliven current debates among chaos theorists, cultural critics and cultural historians, critical theorists, literary critics interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, researchers in nonlinear dynamics, and others concerned with the relation between science and culture. -- back cover
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Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
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Chaos dans la littérature
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Littérature - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.04
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PN771.H35 1990
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