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Chaos Theory and the Interpretation of Literary Texts the Case of Kurt Vonnegut

Author: Boon, Kevin
SKU: PMRT.GEN.5532.05540

$198.85

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780773485532
Publication Date: 1997
Condition: New

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This volume presents the principles articulated in chaos theory as rewarding methods for examining literature. The first section examines the shift from modernism to postmodernism, dating the transition to the bombing of Hiroshima. The second section redefines anterior definitions of chaos and functions as an introduction to the fundamental tenets of chaos theory. The third section deploys chaos theory as a critical approach in its examination of Vonnegut’s fiction, resolving a recurrent paradox in existing Vonnegut scholarship: how a body of fiction that repeatedly focuses on death camps, unjust prosecutions, vicious and elitist ideological practices, war, greed, futility, and failure, can remain affirmative. Other Literature – Twentieth Century Books 1990 – Willa Cather and Classical Myth the Search for a New Parnassus 2014 – Experience of Exile Described by Italian Writers: From Cicero Through Dante and Machiavelli Down to Carlo Levi 2006 – Re-Visioning of the Heroic Journey in Postmodern Literature

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