Quirks of the quantum : postmodernism and contemporary American fiction / Samuel Chase Coale.

Episodic and disconnected, much of postmodern fiction mirrors the world as quantum theorists describe it, according to the author. In this book, the author shows how the doubts, misgivings, and ambiguities reflected in the postmodern American novel have been influenced by the metaphors and models of...

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Main Author: Coale, Samuel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012
Series:Cultural frames, framing culture.
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505 0 |a Deconstructing quantum theory : from modernism to postmodernism -- The quantum flux as/in fiction -- Styles of quantum leaps -- Quantum quandaries : death and/of the self -- Revelation of the quantum realm : underworld and against the day -- Epilogue : a selection of postmodern critics. 
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