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LEADER: 01698cam a2200277 a 4500
001 2001005650
003 DLC
005 20090327114221.0
008 010917s2002 alu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2001005650
020 $a0817311149 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0817311157 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS374.C4$bC66 2002
082 00 $a813/.5409113$221
100 1 $aConte, Joseph M.$q(Joseph Mark),$d1960-
245 10 $aDesign and debris :$ba chaotics of postmodern American fiction /$cJoseph M. Conte.
260 $aTuscaloosa :$bUniversity of Alabama Press,$cc2002.
300 $axi, 271 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.
505 0 $aBeing 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.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aChaotic behavior in systems in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States.