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1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- pt. I. Mathematical and scientific model -- ch. 1. Spinning the web : representative field theories and their implications -- pt. II. Literary strategies -- ch. 2. Drawn to the web : the quality of rhetoric in Pirsig's Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance -- ch. 3. Evasion : the field of the unconscious in D.H. Lawrence -- ch. 4. Ambivalence : symmetry, asymmetry, and the physics of time reversal in Nabokov's Ada -- ch. 5. Subversion : infinite series and transfinite numbers in Borges's fictions -- ch. 6. Caught in the web : cosmology and the point of (no) return in Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow |
| Summary |
From the central concept of the field-which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field- have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure's theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to establish the scope of the field concept and to assess its importance for contemporary thought. She then explores the literary strategies that are attributable directly or indirectly to the new paradigm; among the texts at which she looks closely are Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Nabokov's Ada, D.H. Lawrence's early novels and essays, Borges's fiction, and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow |
| Analysis |
Literature Special themes: Science, 1900-1984 - Critical studies |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and science.
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Literature and science
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Literature, Modern
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Letterkunde.
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Wetenschap.
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Veldentheorie.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
84045141 |
| ISBN |
9781501722974 |
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1501722972 |
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0801492904 |
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9780801492907 |
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9781501727931 |
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1501727931 |
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