The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures
of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has
attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the
humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the
significance for literary and cultural studies of the new paradigm of
chaotics, forging connections between contemporary literature and the
science of chaos. They examine how changing ideas of order and
disorder enable new readings of scientific and literary texts, from
Newton's Principia to Ruskin's autobiography, from Victorian serial
fiction to Borges's short stories. N. Katherine Hayles traces shifts
in meaning that chaos has undergone within the Western tradition,
suggesting that the science of chaos articulates categories that
cannot be assimilated into the traditional dichotomy of order and
disorder. She and her contributors take the relation between order and
disorder as a theme and develop its implications for understanding
texts, metaphors, metafiction, audience response, and the process of
interpretation itself. Their innovative and diverse work opens the
interdisciplinary field of chaotics to literary inquiry.
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ISBN
9780226230047
Publisert
2018
Utgave
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Vendor
University of Chicago Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok