| Description |
xi, 271 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Being in uncertainties : orderly disorder in postmodern American fiction -- Design and debris : John Hawkes's Travesty, chaos theory, and the swerve -- Discipline and anarchy : disrupted codes in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless -- American oulipo : proceduralism in the novels of Gilbert Sorrentino, Harry Mathews, and John Barth -- Noise and signal : information theory in Don DeLillo's White noise -- The perfect game : dynamic equilibrium and the bifurcation point in Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association -- The excluded middle : complexity in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow -- The superabundance of cyberspace : postmodern fiction in the information age. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
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Chaotic behavior in systems in literature. |
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Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and science. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
| ISBN |
0817311157 paperback alkaline paper |
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0817311149 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780817311148 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780817311155 paperback alkaline paper |
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