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

By N. Katherine Hayles

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1986
ISBN
0801417422
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13412403 bytes)
Pages
\203
Time added
2022-07-05 16:12:40

Description

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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