Chaos and order : complex dynamics in literature and science / edited by N. Katherine Hayles.

Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

vii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.

Complex dynamics in literature and science / N. Katherine Hayles -- Literature, complexity, interdisciplinarity / William Paulson -- Fictions as dissipative structures : Prigogine's theory and postmodernism's roadshow / David Porush -- Chaos of metafiction / Peter Stoicheff -- Emplotment of choas : instability and narrative order / Kenneth J. Knoespel -- Representing order : natural philosophy, mathematics, and theology in the Newtonian revolution / Robert Markley -- Authorization of form : Ruskin and the science of chaos / Sheila Emerson -- Linear stories and circular visions : the decline of the Victorian serial / Linda K. Hughes, Michael Lund -- Science and the mythopoeic mind : the case of H. D. / Adalaide Morris -- Representation and bifurcation : Borge's garden of chaos dynamics -- Thomas P. Weissert

Modeling the chaosphere : Stanislaw Lem's alien communications / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay -- Negentropy, noise, and emancipatory thought / Eric Charles White -- Michel Serres : in search of a tropography / Maria L. Assad.

Includes bibliographic references and index