Design and debris
Subtitle: a chaotics of postmodern American fiction
By: Joseph M. Conte.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Chaotic behavior in systems in literature; Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Being in uncertainties : orderly disorder in postmodern American fiction; title: Design and debris : John Hawkes's Travesty, chaos theory, and the swerve; title: Discipline and anarchy : disrupted codes in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless; title: American oulipo : proceduralism in the novels of Gilbert Sorrentino, Harry Mathews, and John Barth; title: Noise and signal : information theory in Don DeLillo's White noise; title: The perfect game : dynamic equilibrium and the bifurcation point in Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association; title: The excluded middle : complexity in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow; title: The superabundance of cyberspace : postmodern fiction in the information age.