The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the 20th Century - Softcover

N. Katherine Hayles

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9780801492907: The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the 20th Century
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ISBN 10: 0801492904 ISBN 13: 9780801492907
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1986

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
1986
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801492904
ISBN 13 
9780801492907
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
210
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