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Design and debris : a chaotics of postmodern American fiction
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- Creator
- Joseph M. Conte
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- Design & debris
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- English
- Publication
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780817382681, 9780817311155, 0817382682, 0817311157, 9780817311148, 0817311149
- OCLC
- ocn424525297, ocm48014827
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-260) and index.
- Being 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