| Chaos Bound Contributor(s): Hayles, N. Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801422620 ISBN-13: 9780801422621 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Science | Chaotic Behavior In Systems |
| Dewey: 809.04 |
| LCCN: 89023893 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.43 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hayles, N. Katherine: - N. Katherine Hayles is James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, including How We Think Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, Electronic Literature New Horizons for the Literary, and My Mother Was a Computer Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. |