Chaos and Order

1 Introduction: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science
N. Katherine Hayles
I Chaos More Than Metaphor
2 Literature, Complexity, Interdisciplinary
William Paulson
3 Fictions as Dissipative Structures: Prigogine's Theory and Postmodernism's Roadshow
David Porush
4 The Chaos of Metafiction
Peter Stoicheff
5 The Emplotment of Chaos: Instability and Narrative Order
Kenneth J. Knoespel
II Order: Revisioning Form
6 Representing Order: Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, and Theology in the Newtonian Revolution
Robert Markley
7 The Authorization of Form: Ruskin and the Science of Chaos
Sheila Emerson
8 Linear Stories and Circular Visions: The Decline of the Victorian Serial
Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund
9 Science and the Mythopoetic Mind: The Case of H.D.
Adalaide Morris
III Chaos and Order: Probing the Limits
10 Representation and Bifurcation: Borges's Garden of Chaos Dynamics
Thomas P. Weissert
11 Modeling the Chaosphere: Stanislaw Lem's Alien Communications
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
12 Negentropy, Noise, and Emancipatory Thought
Eric Charles White
13 Michael Serres: In Search of a Tropography
Maria L. Assad