Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner
Drawing on the insights offered by contemporary chaos theory, Narrative Form and Chaos Theory explores how models of turbulent dynamical systems in the physical world parallel structures in certain kinds of narratives. By closely looking at Laurence Stern
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Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner Jo Alyson Parker
NARRATIVE FORM AND CHAOS THEORY IN STERNE, PROUST, WOOLF, AND FAULKNER
Copyright © Jo Alyson Parker, 2007. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-1-4039-8384-8 Reprinted Jo Alyson Parker: “Strange Attractors in Absalom, Absalom!” from Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology, edited by Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz. Copyright © 1997 by Cornell University. Used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press. Reprinted Jo Alyson Parker: “‘The Clockmakers Outcry’: Tristram Shandy and the Complexification of Time” from Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment, edited by Theodore E. D. Braun and John McCarthy. Copyright © 2000 Rodopi. Used by permission of the publisher, Rodopi. Figures generated by Thomas Weissert used by his permission. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries.
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DOI 10.1057/9780230607217 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: September 2007 10
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List of Figures
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Chaos Theory and the Dynamics of Narrative
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2 Narrating against the Clockwork Hegemony: Tristram Shandy’s Games with Temporality
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3 Narrating the Workings of Memory: Iteration and Attraction in In Search of Lost Time
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4 Narrating the Unbounded: Mrs. Dalloway’s Life, Septimus’s Death, and Sally’s Kiss
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5 Narrating the Indeterminate: Shreve McCannon in Absalom, Absalom!
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Postscript
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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List of Figure s
1.1 Fixed-point attractor 1.2 Periodic orbit 1.3 A Rössler or funnel strange attractor 1.4 A Lorenz or butterfly strange attractor 3.1 A butterfly strange attractor 3.2 A butterfly strange attractor collapsing into a fixed-point attractor
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