Mots d'ordre : disorder in literary worlds / Joseph Natoli. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Natoli, Joseph P., 1943-

Series:

SUNY series, the margins of literature

SUNY series, the margins of literature Mots d'ordre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Order in literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Order in literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 290 p. )

Other Title:

Disorder in literary worlds.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Chapter 1: "The argument': the play of disorder

Chapter 2: Wuthering Heights and the 'play of the text'

Chapter 3: Science's interplay with disorder: autonomous systems, fractal contours and dream-worlds

Chapter 4: The zigzag route of Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

Chapter 5: Triangulated psyches and desiring machines

Chapter 6: Mots d'Ordre regimes in Kafka and Dickens

Chapter 7: The world's worlding: marginalization, hegemony, and disorder

Chapter 8: Expectations of difference: Kathy Acker's regime of the senseless

Chapter 9: The world's worlding: history and literary disorder

Chapter 10: The fractal worlds of the Henry IV plays

Chapter 11: Mapping the inconceivable: disordering taxonomies

Chapter 12: The order of prizing and the devouring order: Peter Taylor's A Summons to Memphis and Patrick Süskind's Perfume.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-1431-5

0-585-05929-2