| The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Hayles, N. Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501727931 ISBN-13: 9781501727931 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Science | Physics - Quantum Theory |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 210 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
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. |