Naslov
“Knotting into” Gravity’s Rainbow: Scientific Paradigms and Literature

Autori
Gruić Grmuša, Lovorka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The Errant Labor of the Humanities: Festschrift presented to Stipe Grgas

Urednik/ci
Cvek, Sven ; Knežević, Borislav ; Šesnić, Jelena

Izdavač
FF Press

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2017

Raspon stranica
303-320

ISBN
978-953-175-596-2

Ključne riječi
Thomas Pynchon ; Gravity’s Rainbow ; natural sciences ; space-time ; nonlinear dynamics

Sažetak
Addressing the long-standing primacy that the natural sciences enjoy in public life, acting as stimuli to analogous theories in other fields of study (Adam 48), this essay demonstrates that, although science is used as a “repository of tropes” which enlightens literary texts (Hayles 20), literary expression goes hand in hand with science as a progressive force that frames cultural values and the way we experience reality. It traces the connections between literary discourse and scientific paradigms in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), which go beyond metaphor to assert deeper correspondence. Embraced by a larger revolution in contemporary thought, science and literature share common ground in coping with and giving meaning to our complex space-time, where contingency, randomness, irreversibility, and self- organization rule. Thus, Gravity’s Rainbow becomes not simply an illustration, but a measure of conceptual inadequacy of contemporary thories of matter, causality, and space-time, revealing the limitations of a whole spectrum of cultural meaning-making processes.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne prirodne znanosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost

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