The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Hayles, N. Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801417422 ISBN 13: 9780801417429

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1985

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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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N. Katherine Hayles is James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, including How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801417422
• ISBN 13: 9780801417429
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
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