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Design and Debris
Joseph Leconte
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Description for Design and Debris
Paperback. Reading eight major contemporary authors through the lens of chaos theory, this book offers new and original interpretations of works that have been the subject of much critical debate. The author addresses the relationship between order and disorder in such authors as John Hawkes and Kathy Acker. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; PBWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
Design and Debris discusses the relationship between order and disorder in the works of John Hawkes, Harry Mathews, John Barth, Gilbert Sorrentino, Robert Coover, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo. In analyzing their work, Joseph Conte brings to bear a unique approach adapted from scientific thought: chaos theory. His chief concern is illuminating those works whose narrative structures locate order hidden in disorder (whose authors Conte terms ""proceduralists""), and those whose structures reflect the opposite, disorder emerging from states of order (whose authors Conte calls ""disruptors""). Documenting the paradigm shift from modernism, in which artists attempted to impose order ... Read more
Design and Debris discusses the relationship between order and disorder in the works of John Hawkes, Harry Mathews, John Barth, Gilbert Sorrentino, Robert Coover, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo. In analyzing their work, Joseph Conte brings to bear a unique approach adapted from scientific thought: chaos theory. His chief concern is illuminating those works whose narrative structures locate order hidden in disorder (whose authors Conte terms ""proceduralists""), and those whose structures reflect the opposite, disorder emerging from states of order (whose authors Conte calls ""disruptors""). Documenting the paradigm shift from modernism, in which artists attempted to impose order ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817311155
SKU
V9780817311155
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About Joseph Leconte
Joseph Conte is Associate Professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo and author of Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry.
Reviews for Design and Debris
There are very few books on postmodern fiction comparable in quality to this one, fewer still that address the relation between fiction and science, and none at all that do so with such clarity and aplomb. - Brian McHale, author of Postmodernist Fiction and Constructing Postmodernism