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Joyce, chaos, and complexity
- Title
- Joyce, chaos, and complexity / Thomas Jackson Rice.
- Author
- Rice, Thomas Jackson.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR6019.O9 Z78455 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 204 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity studies the manifold relations among twentieth-century mathematics and Science, James Joyce's fiction, and the critical reception of Joyce's work. Calling for profound reassessments, Thomas Jackson Rice compellingly argues that Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it. Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first provocatively traces the previously unacknowledged formative influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering merely arbitrary constructions of this new reality. Joyce responded to these developmeats in Ulysses by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of reality. Rice contends that Ulysses is a precursor to the multiple tensions of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for understanding Ulysses. In Finnegans Wake Joyce consummates his vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a dynamic approximation of reality.
- Subject
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941 > Knowledge and learning
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941
- Joyce, James 1882-1941
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941
- Joyce, James
- 1900-1999
- Literature and science > Ireland > History > 20th century
- Mathematics and literature > History > 20th century
- Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
- Complexity (Philosophy) in literature
- Postmodernism (Literature) > Ireland
- Science in literature
- 18.05 English literature
- Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
- Complexity (Philosophy) in literature
- Literature and science
- Mathematics and literature
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Science
- Science in literature
- Mathematik
- Chaostheorie
- Naturwissenschaften
- Komplexität
- Chaos
- Complexiteit
- Wiskunde
- Ireland
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : James Joyce, from "scientific" realist to scientific "realist" -- The elements of geometry in Dubliners -- The aliments of jumeantry in A portrait of the artist as a young man -- Ulysses, chaos, and complexity -- Finnegans wake : the complexity of artificial life -- Appendixes: A. Joyce, mathematics, and science. B. Modern physics.
- ISBN
- 0252022793
- 9780252022791
- 0252065832
- 9780252065835
- LCCN
- 96009969
- OCLC
- ocm34319563
- 34319563
- SCSB-14630381
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library