Research Catalog
Design and debris : a chaotics of postmodern American fiction
- Title
- Design and debris : a chaotics of postmodern American fiction / Joseph M. Conte.
- Author
- Conte, Joseph M. (Joseph Mark), 1960-
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 02-14336 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 271 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-14336
- ISBN
- 0817311149 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817311157 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2001005650
- OCLC
- 48014827
- Author
- Conte, Joseph M. (Joseph Mark), 1960-
- Title
- Design and debris : a chaotics of postmodern American fiction / Joseph M. Conte.
- Imprint
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-14336