TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayles,N.Katherine
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Cosmic Web : : Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century / 
SN  - 9781501722981
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - nli
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Veldentheorie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Wetenschap
KW  - Letterkunde
KW  - fast
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - Litterature et sciences
KW  - Litterature
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction -- pt. I. Mathematical and scientific model -- ch. 1. Spinning the web : representative field theories and their implications -- pt. II. Literary strategies -- ch. 2. Drawn to the web : the quality of rhetoric in Pirsig's Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance -- ch. 3. Evasion : the field of the unconscious in D.H. Lawrence -- ch. 4. Ambivalence : symmetry, asymmetry, and the physics of time reversal in Nabokov's Ada -- ch. 5. Subversion : infinite series and transfinite numbers in Borges's fictions -- ch. 6. Caught in the web : cosmology and the point of (no) return in Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow -- References Cited -- Index; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58025/
ER  -