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1、BeautifulChaosBeautifulChaosChaosTheoryandMetachaoticsinRecentAmericanFictionGORDONE.SLETHAUGStateUniversityofNewYorkPressPublishedbyStateUniversityofNewYorkPress,Albany©2000StateUniversityofNewYorkAllrightsreservedPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaNopartofthis
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4、oryandmetachaoticsinrecentAmericanfiction/GordonE.Slethaug.p.cm.—(SUNYseriesinpostmodernculture)Includesbibliographicalreferences(p.)andindex.ISBN0-7914-4741-3(alk.paper)—ISBN0-7914-4742-1(pbk.:alk.paper)1.Americanfiction—20thcentury—Historyandcriticism.2.Chao
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6、SPrefaceixAcknowledgmentsxxxiChapter1DynamicFictionandtheFieldofAction:Mimesis,Metaphor,Model,andMetachaotics1Chapter2OrderlySystems:Growth,Competition,andTransgression27Chapter3EntropicCrisis,Blockage,Bifurcation,andFlow45Chapter4Turbulence,StochasticProcesse
7、s,andTraffic61Chapter5Energy,Noise,andInformation79Chapter6JuxtapositionalSymmetry:Recursion,Scaling,andFractals97Chapter7Iteration123Chapter8StrangeAttractors147Chapter9SynopticStudy:“TheCodedDotsofLife”163viiviiiBEAUTIFULCHAOSNotes187Bibliography193Index201P
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