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1、BeautifulChaosBeautifulChaosChaosTheoryandMetachaoticsinRecentAmericanFictionGORDONE.SLETHAUGStateUniversityofNewYorkPressPublishedbyStateUniversityofNewYorkPress,Albany©2000StateUniversityofNewYorkAllrightsreservedPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaNopartofthisbookmaybeusedorreproduc
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4、Yseriesinpostmodernculture)Includesbibliographicalreferences(p.)andindex.ISBN0-7914-4741-3(alk.paper)—ISBN0-7914-4742-1(pbk.:alk.paper)1.Americanfiction—20thcentury—Historyandcriticism.2.Chaoticbehaviorinsystemsinliterature.I.Title.II.Series.PS374.C4.S582000813'.5409384—dc2100-03876
5、610987654321ivIwishtodedicateBeautifulChaostothreecolleagueswhohavebeengreatfriendsandhavealwaysgivenmegoodadvice:Dr.NeilHultin,Dr.WarrenOber,andDr.JamesVanEvra.CONTENTSPrefaceixAcknowledgmentsxxxiChapter1DynamicFictionandtheFieldofAction:Mimesis,Metaphor,Model,andMetachaotics1Chapt
6、er2OrderlySystems:Growth,Competition,andTransgression27Chapter3EntropicCrisis,Blockage,Bifurcation,andFlow45Chapter4Turbulence,StochasticProcesses,andTraffic61Chapter5Energy,Noise,andInformation79Chapter6JuxtapositionalSymmetry:Recursion,Scaling,andFractals97Chapter7Iteration123Chap
7、ter8StrangeAttractors147Chapter9SynopticStudy:“TheCodedDotsofLife”163viiviiiBEAUTIFULCHAOSNotes187Bibliography193Index201PREFACEThingsbegin,thingsend.Justwhenweseemtoarriveataquietplacewearesweptup,suddenly,betweenthebody’ssmooth,functioningpredictabilityandtheneedfordisruption.Wedo
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