The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism

by Michael Patrick Gillespie

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Michael Patrick Gillespie employs concepts of post-Einsteinian physics as the metaphoric and dialectic foundation for an alternative method of interpreting literature. His central argument revolves around the notion that the most useful literary criticism is that which comes closest to the process of reading. He argues that since our reading is not circumscribed by Cartesian cause-and-effect principles, our literary criticism should not be bound...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813033462

ISBN13:9780813033464

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:University Press of Florida

Length:160 Pages

Weight:0.51 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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