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The Cosmic Web

N. Katherine Hayles · 1986

76,725 words · about 5 h 22 min to read

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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Hayles, N. Katherine (1986), The Cosmic Web, Cornell University Press - licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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About this book

Author
N. Katherine Hayles
Language
English
Published
1986
Length
76,725 words · about 5 h 22 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Part I: MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIFIC MODELS under 1 min
  3. Preface about 5 h 21 min

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Front matter

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COSMIC WE

Scientific Field Models & Literary Strategies in the 20th Century

Part I: MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIFIC MODELS

1. Spinning the Web: Representative Field Theories and Their Implications

Parr II: LITERARY STRATEGIES

2, Drawn to the Web: The Quality of Rhetoric in Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

3. Evasion: The Field of the Unconscious in D. H. Lawrence

4. Ambivalence: Symmetry, Asymmetry, and the Physics of Time Reversal in Nabokov's Ada

5. Subversion: Infinite Series and Transfinite Numbers in Borges’s Fictions

6 Caught in the Web: Cosmology and the Point of (No) Return in Pynchon’s Gravity's Rainbow

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