In this Book
- Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
- 2018
- Book
- Published by: Cornell University Press
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summary
N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. She examines structures and themes of disorder in The Education of Henry Adams, Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook, and works by Stanislaw Lem. Hayles shows how the writings of poststructuralist theorists including Barthes, Lyotard, Derrida, Serres, and de Man incorporate central features of chaos theory.
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- p. v
- 1 Introduction: The Evolution of Chaos
- pp. xvii-28
- PART I SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING
- pp. 29-30
- 6 Strange Attractors: The Appeal of Chaos
- pp. 142-174
- 7 Chaos and Poststructuralism
- pp. 175-208
- Selected Bibliography
- p. 296
Additional Information
ISBN
9781501722950
Related ISBN(s)
9780801422621, 9780801497018, 9781501722967, 9781501727924
MARC Record
OCLC
1031871014
Pages
330
Launched on MUSE
2018-02-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes