Joyce, chaos, and complexity
Thomas Jackson Rice
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Joyce, chaos, and complexity
Published
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pages
204
ISBN-10
0252022793
Description
Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity studies the manifold relations among twentieth-century mathematics and Science, James Joyce's fiction, and the critical reception of Joyce's work. Calling for profound reassessments, Thomas Jackson Rice compellingly argues that Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it. Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first provocatively traces the previously unacknowledged formative influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering merely arbitrary constructions of this new reality. Joyce responded to these developmeats in Ulysses by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of reality. Rice contends that Ulysses is a precursor to the multiple tensions of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for understanding Ulysses. In Finnegans Wake Joyce consummates his vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a dynamic approximation of reality.
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This edition of Joyce, chaos, and complexity has approximately 204 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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For most readers, Joyce, chaos, and complexity typically takes between 4h 15m and 2h 50m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 51,000 words and common reading speeds.
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Who is the author of Joyce, chaos, and complexity?
Joyce, chaos, and complexity was written by Thomas Jackson Rice.
When was Joyce, chaos, and complexity published?
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