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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 1984.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Mathematical and Scientific Models
  • Chapter I. Spinning The Web
  • Part II. Literary Strategies
  • Chapter 2. Drawn to the Web
  • 3. Evasion: The Field of the Unconscious in D. H. Lawrence
  • Chapter 4. Ambivalence
  • 5. Subversion
  • Chapter 6. Caught In The Web Cosmology and the Point of (No) Return in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
  • References Cited
  • Index