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Joyce, chaos, and complexity, Thomas Jackson Rice

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xv, 204 pages
Contents
  • Introduction : James Joyce, from "scientific" realist to scientific "realist"
  • The elements of geometry in Dubliners
  • The aliments of jumeantry in A portrait of the artist as a young man
  • Ulysses, chaos, and complexity
  • Finnegans wake : the complexity of artificial life
  • Appendixes: A. Joyce, mathematics, and science. B. Modern physics
Isbn
9780252065835
Link
https://archive.org/details/joycechaoscomple00rice
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Joyce, chaos, and complexity
Title
Joyce, chaos, and complexity
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Thomas Jackson Rice
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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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Rice, Thomas Jackson
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PR6019.O9
LC item number
Z78455 1997
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Joyce, James
  • Joyce, James
  • Joyce, James
  • Joyce, James
  • Literature and science
  • Mathematics and literature
  • Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
  • Complexity (Philosophy) in literature
  • Postmodernism (Literature)
  • Science in literature
  • Littérature et sciences
  • Mathématiques et littérature
  • Chaos dans la littérature
  • Complexité (Philosophie) dans la littérature
  • Postmodernisme (Littérature)
  • Sciences dans la littérature
  • Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
  • Complexity (Philosophy) in literature
  • Literature and science
  • Mathematics and literature
  • Postmodernism (Literature)
  • Science
  • Science in literature
  • Chaos
  • Complexiteit
  • Wiskunde
  • Chaostheorie
  • Mathematik
  • Naturwissenschaften
  • Komplexität
  • Ireland
Label
Joyce, chaos, and complexity, Thomas Jackson Rice
Link
https://archive.org/details/joycechaoscomple00rice
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : James Joyce, from "scientific" realist to scientific "realist" -- The elements of geometry in Dubliners -- The aliments of jumeantry in A portrait of the artist as a young man -- Ulysses, chaos, and complexity -- Finnegans wake : the complexity of artificial life -- Appendixes: A. Joyce, mathematics, and science. B. Modern physics
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xv, 204 pages
Isbn
9780252065835
Lccn
96009969
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)34319563
  • (OCoLC)ocm34319563
Label
Joyce, chaos, and complexity, Thomas Jackson Rice
Link
https://archive.org/details/joycechaoscomple00rice
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : James Joyce, from "scientific" realist to scientific "realist" -- The elements of geometry in Dubliners -- The aliments of jumeantry in A portrait of the artist as a young man -- Ulysses, chaos, and complexity -- Finnegans wake : the complexity of artificial life -- Appendixes: A. Joyce, mathematics, and science. B. Modern physics
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xv, 204 pages
Isbn
9780252065835
Lccn
96009969
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)34319563
  • (OCoLC)ocm34319563

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