| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The SUNY series in postmodern culture
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SUNY series in postmodern culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Dynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model, and Metachaotics 1 -- Chapter 2 Orderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression 27 -- Chapter 3 Entropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow 45 -- Chapter 4 Turbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic 61 -- Chapter 5 Energy, Noise, and Information 79 -- Chapter 6 Juxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals 97 -- Chapter 7 Iteration 123 -- Chapter 8 Strange Attractors 147 -- Chapter 9 Synoptic Study: "The Coded Dots of Life" 163. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| 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. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slethaug, Gordon. Beautiful chaos. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000 0791447413 (DLC) 00038766 |
| ISBN |
0791447413 (electronic book) |
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9780791447413 (electronic book) |
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0791447421 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791447420 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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