The Cosmic Web Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1986
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (210 p.) |
| ISBN: | c3bp-cw81 9781501722974 9781501727931 9781501722981 9780801417429 |
| Access: | Open Access |