Design and debris : a chaotics of postmodern American fiction / Joseph M. Conte.

Author/creator Conte, Joseph M., 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.

Cover title Design & debris
Contents Being in uncertainties : orderly disorder in postmodern American fiction -- Design and debris : John Hawkes's Travesty, chaos theory, and the swerve -- Discipline and anarchy : disrupted codes in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless -- American oulipo : proceduralism in the novels of Gilbert Sorrentino, Harry Mathews, and John Barth -- Noise and signal : information theory in Don DeLillo's White noise -- The perfect game : dynamic equilibrium and the bifurcation point in Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association -- The excluded middle : complexity in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow -- The superabundance of cyberspace : postmodern fiction in the information age.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.
LCCN 2001005650
ISBN0817311149 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0817311157 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.C4 C66 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold