Complexity in Maurice Blanchot's fiction
Subtitle: relations between science and literature
By: Deborah M. Hess.
Series: Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ;; vol. 73
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Blanchot, Maurice -- Criticism and interpretation.; Blanchot, Maurice -- Knowledge -- Science.; Science in literature.; Literature and science -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Complexity in Maurice Blanchot's Fiction integrates findings from the history of science and mathematics; information theory, symbolic logic, and philosophy, in an interdisciplinary analysis of the relation between order, disorder, and process in the literary text. Maurice Blanchot's fiction serves as an exemplary focus for a textual analysis based on symbol formation and the emergence of order in complex literary texts. His fictional works are analyzed in terms of increasing complexity.

Culture relates to the literary text through metaphors expressing indeterminism, subjectivity, multivalence, opposition, recursion, loops, spirals, order and disorder, and emergence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-351).