Complexity in Maurice Blanchot's Fiction: Relations Between Science and Literature

Deborah M Hess

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Published
1 March 1999
Pages
351
ISBN
9780820440149

Complexity in Maurice Blanchot’s Fiction: Relations Between Science and Literature

Deborah M Hess

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.

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