Beautiful Chaos by Gordon E Slethaug

Beautiful Chaos by Gordon E Slethaug

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.

"I think the great contribution of this book lies in the range of literary texts that it coversAlthough other authors have previously argued for the importance of chaos theory to literary study, this book has the virtue of discussing a number of texts not previously associated with chaotics, thus demonstrating its applicability to contemporary literature in general." — N. Katherine Hayles, author of Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science

Gordon E. Slethaug is Chairman, Program in American Studies, at the University of Hong Kong, and author of The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction.

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ISBN 13	9780791447420
ISBN 10	0791447421
Title	Beautiful Chaos
Author	Gordon E Slethaug
Series	Suny Series In Postmodern Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2000-11-09
Number of pages	238
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