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100 1  Strehle, Susan.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n91097393 
245 10 Fiction in the quantum universe /|cSusan Strehle. 
264  1 Chapel Hill :|bUniversity of North Carolina Press,|c[1992]
264  4 |c©1992 
300    1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and 
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520    Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from
       the influence of modern physics. The changed physical 
       world appears in both content and form in some of the most
       ambitious recent fiction, which Strehle names "actualism" 
       after the observations of Werner Heisenberg. Within that 
       framework she explores the meditations on actuality in 
       Pynchon, Coover, Gaddis, Barth, Atwood, and Barthelme. 
       Although important recent narratives diverge markedly from
       realistic practice, this book claims that they do so in 
       order to reflect more acutely on what we now understand as
       real. According to Strehle, the actualists balance 
       attention to questions of art with an engaged meditation 
       on the external, actual world. Reality is no longer 
       realistic; in the new physical or quantum universe, it is 
       discontinuous, energetic, relative, statistical, 
       subjectively seen, and uncertainly known--all terms taken 
       from the new physics. Actualist fiction is characterized 
       by incompletions, indeterminacy, and "open" endings 
       unsatisfying to the readerly wish for fulfilled promises 
       and completed patterns. Gravity's Rainbow, for example, 
       ends not with a period but with a dash. Realistic novels 
       typically construct solid, believable, particularized 
       environments, but actualist texts combine the plausible 
       and the strange. Thus a recognizable campus like Berkeley 
       or Cornell has a suburb called San Narciso or Zembla. 
       Strehle makes the point that these innovations in 
       narrative form reflect in allied ways upon twentieth-
       century history, politics, and science. Arguing that the 
       perception of a changed reality reaches into philosophy, 
       psychology, literary theory, and other areas of inquiry, 
       the book advances a pluralistic view of the meaning of 
       contemporary fiction. A final chapter extends the 
       discussion beyond the North American borders to African, 
       South American, and European texts, suggesting a global 
       community of writers whose fiction belongs in the quantum 
       universe. 
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648  7 20th century|2fast 
648  7 1900 - 1999|2fast 
650  0 American fiction|y20th century|xHistory and criticism.
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650  0 Literature and science|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th 
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650  0 Postmodernism (Literature)|zUnited States.|0https://
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650  0 Quantum theory in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh94008432 
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       807048 
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       id.worldcat.org/fast/1085143 
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       universe.|dChapel Hill : University of North Carolina 
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