Complexity in Maurice Blanchot's Fiction

Relations Between Science and Literature
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8204-4014-9
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 351 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

Reihe: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures

Complexity in Maurice Blanchot's Fiction integrates findings from the history of science and mathematics, information theory, symbolic logic, and philosophy, in an interdisciplinary analysis of the relation between order, disorder, and process in the literary text. Maurice Blanchot's fiction serves as an exemplary focus for a textual analysis based on symbol formation and the emergence of order in complex literary texts. His fictional works are analyzed in terms of increasing complexity. Culture relates to the literary text through metaphors expressing indeterminism, subjectivity, multivalence, opposition, recursion, loops, spirals, order and disorder, and emergence. An extensive bibliography on complexity theory and on Blanchot is included.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hess, Deborah M.

Über Autor(innen)

The Author: Deborah M. Hess is Professor of French at Drew University (Madison, N.J.). She received her Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professor Hess is the author of Politics and Literature: The Case of Maurice Blanchot (Peter Lang, 1999) and specializes in a cultural approach to literary studies.