Gordon E. Slethaug
Autor de Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction
Sobre El Autor
Gordon E. Slethaug is Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the former Head of the English Department and former Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in Arts at Waterloo, as well as the former Director of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong. His published book include: mostrar más International Teaching and Learning at Universities (2015); Adaptation Theory Criticism: Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA (2014); Hit the Road, Jack: Essays on the Culture of the American Road (2012); Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction; and The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction (2000). mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-09-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Educación
- University of Nebraska (PhD, 1968)
Pacific Lutheran University (BA) - Ocupaciones
- professor of English
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Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in… por Gordon E. Slethaug
While this is a good scholarly review of Chaos Theory as it applies to contemporary American Fiction, it leans very heavily on Postmodern Fiction and ignores the more recent "Hysterical Reality" movement. If you know nothing about Chaos Theory, be sure to read [b:Chaos: The Making of a New Science|64582|Chaos The Making of a New Science|James Gleick|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327941595s/64582.jpg|62690] by [a:James Gleick|10401|James Gleick|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1304671926p2/10401.jpg] first to get a proper introduction to the basics. It also helps if you've read books by Don Delillo, Barth and Cormac McCarthy… (más)
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- 7
- Miembros
- 35
- Popularidad
- #405,584
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 22