Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner

Parker, J.

Drawing on the insights offered by contemporary chaos theory, Narrative Form and Chaos Theory explores how models of turbulent dynamical systems in the physical world parallel structures in certain kinds of narratives. By closely looking at Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Parker demonstrates how these insights can be applied to the analysis of narrative structure and meaning. This innovative interdisciplinary work will appeal to scholars interested in narratology and in the connection between chaos theory and literature.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2007-09-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403983848

DOI: 10.1057/9780230607217

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 187