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Book Title: Chaos Bound

Book Subtitle: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
Book Author(s): N. Katherine Hayles
Published by: Cornell University Press. (1990)
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 A L S O BY N . K A T H E R I N E H A Y LE S

The C o sm ic W eb : Scientific Field M o d e ls a n d

L iterary Strategies in the T w e n tieth C entu ry

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Chaos Bound
ORDERLY D ISO RDER IN
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
AND SCIENCE

N. Katherine Hayles

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Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Copyright © 1990 by Cornell University

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First published 1990 by Cornell University Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hayles, N. Katherine.
Chaos bound : orderly disorder in contemporary literature and science /
N. Katherine Hayles.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-2262-1 (cloth) — ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-9701-8 (pbk.)
1. Literature, Modern—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Chaotic
behavior in systems in literature. I. Title.
PN771.H35 1990
809'.04—dc20 89-23893

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Cover illustration: Mandelbrot set (detail, magnified). Courtesy of Nural Akchurin.

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 F O R M Y F A M IL Y , E SPEC IALLY
MY PARENTS, THELM A A N D E D W A R D BR U N S,
A N D M Y C H IL D R E N , LORI A N D JO N A T H A N

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