The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism

by Michael Patrick Gillespie

Book Overview

Michael Patrick Gillespie employs concepts of post-Einsteinian physics as the metaphoric and dialectic foundation for an alternative method of interpreting literature. His central argument revolves around the notion that the most useful literary criticism is that which comes closest to the process of reading. He argues that since our reading is not circumscribed by Cartesian cause-and-effect principles, our literary criticism should not be bound...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813033462
• ISBN13: 9780813033464
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"